A revelatory and often chilling examination of an English icon, and his controversial Soviet double life.
At Whitehall, he was accused of being an agent of a hostile nation, and only narrow.
But before that, he was an uncritical apologist for the Bolshevik regime, conducting a love affair with Leon Trotsky\'s private secretary, and comparing Lenin to Oliver Cromwell.
Rowling of his day, author of a series of children\'s books that shaped the imaginations of a generation.
Arthur Ransome was the J.
K.
A revelatory and often chilling examination of an English icon, and his controversial Soviet double life