Bruce Lockhart MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT Signed Hardback

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Bruce Lockhart MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT Signed Hardback

Second edition reprint hardback of MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT by R. H. Bruce Lockhart and published by Black & White Library - Putnam in 1937. Signed to a previous owner by Lockhart on the title page. Ex Libris plate pasted to inside front board.

The book is in very good condition (black and beige cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine) with light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine and bumping to the corners. The book is in a fair unclipped dust jacket which has some chipping / missing pieces to corners and edges, some tanning to the inside and outside, some tanning / foxing to the first and last few pages and page ends. Internally the pages are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.

When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man's story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was a dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen to support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters' secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.

355 pages including an Index

ISBN: n/a

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