Ivor Montagu: Communist aristocrat, Soviet spy and activist filmmaker
- Written by Russell Campbell, Adjunct Associate Professor of Film, Victoria University of Wellington
Ivor Montagu during the 1980s.People's History Museum, CC BY-ND
A little more than a century ago, with the Great War raging, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe paid a visit to a 13-year-old schoolboy.
He had come to play a naval war game the boy had invented, involving the movement of the opposing fleets by mathematical calculations of speeds and...
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