{"id":1496,"date":"2018-11-18T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2018-11-18T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T16:05:08","slug":"review-the-secret-twenties-british-intelligence-the-russians-and-the-jazz-age-by-timothy-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-secret-twenties-british-intelligence-the-russians-and-the-jazz-age-by-timothy-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, The Russians and the Jazz Age, by Timothy Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Phillips has written a gripping account of the secret war between the British intelligence services and the Bolsheviks during the 1920s.  <\/p>\n<p>Based largely on documents he unearthed in the National Archives, this is a story about far Right politicians (including some open fascists) working hand in hand with security services to combat (with rather limited success) a sometimes-real and sometimes-imaginary &#8220;Red Menace&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>The Zinoviev Letter, the one part of the story with which I was already familiar, gets good coverage, but it turns out to be only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.  <\/p>\n<p>A great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Phillips has written a gripping account of the secret war between the British intelligence services and the Bolsheviks during the 1920s. Based largely on documents he unearthed in the National Archives, this is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}