The untold story of the iconic Hampstead building, completed in 1934, which was home to a remarkable list of residents, including Henry Moore, Agatha Christie and Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius, as well as those with dark secrets. Many Soviet spies, such as Arnold Deutsch, senior agent and controller of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, were drawn to the building.

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The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers

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Foreword - Prologue Remembrance of Things Past, Hampstead Man among The Modernists' 'National Planning For The Future' and the arrival of Walter Gropius 1935:Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' Musicology, and the art of Espionage Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism The Isobar, Half Hundred Club and the arrival of SONYA The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch Vere Gordon Childe The New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh, and The End of an Era Epilogue Bibliography