This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some aspects, as a battle between good (personified by Sakharer) and evil (in the form of the Communist Party), the author breathes life into Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are seen as Carylean ...
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In the largest tank battle of World War II, the Soviet army successfully resisted the German Panzer offensive in the Kursk Salient on the Eastern Front, and in the counter-offensive that followed, began an advance that finally ended in Berlin. This history of the battle covers the many famous German units engaged in battle as well as the defensive ...
The international bestseller critically acclaimed as "undoubtedly the most important book ever written on Soviet espionage".--San Francisco Chronicle. An ex-KGB colonelorical perspective of "Britain's leading unofficial historian of intelligence" (The Times) to provide the whole truth of the KGB's operations.
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In 1992, the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost 30 years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, which in 1972 he was made responsible for moving to a new HQ just outside Moscow. He was congratulated by the head of foreign intelligence, Vladimir Kryuchkov (later the ...
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
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