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Witness Study Guide

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by Whittaker Chambers
About 45 pages (13,432 words)
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Witness Study Guide consists of approx. 45 pages of summaries and analysis on Witness by Whittaker Chambers. Browse the literature study guide below:

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The book opens with Chambers saying he began his break with communism in 1937. This is not the same thing as breaking with the Communist Party, which he describes as an organization. His break with the Party takes place in April,1938 and causes him, his wife, and two children to go into hiding. Chambers is involved in espionage at the time of the break. His superior is Colonel Boris Bykov of the Red Army military intelligence; but Chambers only knows him as Peter. Chambers, himself, is known as "Bob" and in Washington as "Carl". Chambers isn't the only one in Washington involved in espionage on the part of the Soviets. There were contacts and active sources in the State Department, the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Standards and the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The hig... (read more)
      Chapter 1 Flight
      Chapter 2 The Story of a Middle-Class Family
      Chapter 3 The Outrage and the Hope of the World
      Chapter 4 The Communist Party
      Chapter 5 Underground The First Apparatus
      Chapter 6 The Child
      Chapter 7 Underground The Second Apparatus
      Chapter 8 Colonel Boris Bykov
      Chapter 9 The Division Point
      Chapter 10 The Tranquil Years
      Chapter 11 The Hiss Case
      Chapter 12 The Bridge
      Chapter 13 The Hiss Case II
      Chapter 14 1949
      Chapter 15 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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