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Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228)

Cold War Conversations

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Edith and the Cambridge Spies

i found the fact that she was austrian and brought up in austria and her early life absolutely fascinating. Her parents are sort of chosen to live in because they weren't actually working class, but i think they felt connected too to that place and to the people who lived there. She inherited em aspect of her father, who was incredibly, sort of forward thinking and progressive. But you know, that there their views differed. For edith this wast sort of innate, it was part of her soof formative experience. It's also a novel, and it's very much my own reconstruction of the events as i've found them,. both through my readings about kim em and ed

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