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How did notorious traitor Kim Philby manage to infiltrate MI6 and send its most sensitive secrets to the Soviets? Now, for the first time, his account in a once secret tape Show more How did ...

Charlotte Philby is a writer at The Independent with a weekly column on motherhood in The Independent Magazine. She was shortlisted for the 2013 Cudlipp award for excellence in popular journalism ...

he death in Moscow last spring of Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby closed a chapter in the most celebrated espionage case of the postwar years—but not the book. Philby, of course, was the most ...

The British Library attempted to purchase a notorious Cold War double agent’s archive in a deal worth tens of thousands of pounds to his widow, documents have revealed. Kim Philby was recruited ...

My Silent War by Kim Philby (1968). All right, this is a memoir, not a novel, but since its author is a notorious Soviet mole, it's not strictly the truth, either. And it's fascinating in any case.