Table of Contents

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

Reviews

The book is the product of excellent detective work on Burke's part [and is] a compelling, original and insightful read, often providing minute details of everyday espionage, while chronicling artistic movements and political upheavals engagingly.
*HISTORY*

Burke's book is constructed like the building itself: each chapter has at its centre a life story of one or other key resident of the ISOKON, and these stories are as interconnected as were the tenants at the Lawn Road Flats. ... [Its] history has now been meticulously restored by David Burke.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*

A fascinating book.
*CHARTIST*

Burke intersperses his painstakingly detailed research with fascinating glimpses of life at the time, drawing on stories and letters that bring his account into vivid relief.
*TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT*

A lively and vivid chronicle of a generation shaped by war, political upheaval and idealism.
*HISTORY TODAY*

Cocktails, glamour, spies - Bond would love it.
*SAGA MAGAZINE*

Burke proves to be a brilliant sleuth...and is insightful on the...daily detail of a spy's life.
*TIMES*

This book, like the Lawn Road flats themselves, is full of surprises.
*SUNDAY TIMES*

Reveals the staggeringly rich artistic and political machinations that took place within.
*FINANCIAL TIMES*