The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

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✅ Language - English

✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ Pages Amount 1119

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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, co-authored by British historian Christopher Andrew and former Soviet archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, is widely considered one of the most comprehensive and revealing histories of Soviet espionage ever published.The book is based on the Mitrokhin Archive, a massive collection of top-secret files that Mitrokhin secretly copied and smuggled out of the KGB’s foreign intelligence headquarters over a period of 12 years. When he defected to the United Kingdom in 1992, the FBI officially labeled his notes as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source".