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Published by Basic Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0465003125ISBN 13: 9780465003129
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Published by Basic Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0465003109ISBN 13: 9780465003105
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Published by Basic Books, New York, NY, 1999
ISBN 10: 0465003109ISBN 13: 9780465003105
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; Third Printing. Very Good overall condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings.; B&W Photographs; 700 pages.
Published by Basic Books, NY, 1999
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
HC. Condition: Very good with bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 8vo.
Published by Ballinger Pub Co, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1986
ISBN 10: 0887300391ISBN 13: 9780887300394
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Wraps. 279pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. By far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe. Clean.
Published by NY. 1999. Basic Books, 1999
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
black hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. minor wrinkling to bottom of last couple of pages, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xix+700p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. chronology. transliteration of russian names. 5 appendices. notes. bibliography. index. world history. russian history. soviet union. espionage. covert operations. cold war. secret societies. conspiracy theory. ~The Sword and the Shield gives us by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe. It is based on an unprecedented, top~secret archive described by the FBI as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source." The presence of this archive in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network. In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West has remained secret until the publication of this book. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB. In 1972 he was made responsible for moving these entire archives, including all the files on the KGB's deep~cover operatives, to new headquarters just outside Moscow. He was congratulated by the head of foreign intelligence, Vladimir Kryuchkov (later the ringleader of the 1991 Moscow coup), for his success in transferring the archives and his "irreproachable service to the state security authorities." Unknown to Kryuchkov, however, Mitrokhin spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of these highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor. "Few KGB officers have ever spent so much time reading, let alone noting, foreign intelligence files," writes Christopher Andrew. In 1996 Tatyana Samolis, spokeswoman for the SVR, President Yeltsin's foreign intelligence service, dismissed a German report that a defector had reached Britain with the names of several hundred Soviet spies as "absolute nonsense." "That just doesn't happen," she said. ''Any defector could get the names of one, two, perhaps three agents~but not hundreds!" The facts, however, are far more sensational than the story dismissed by the SVR. No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any point between the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1980s can now be sure that his or her secrets are safe. Christopher Andrew has had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive, which is now in Britain. Supplementing this treasure trove of KGB secrets with extensive research in other archives, published and unpublished sources, he has written an extraordinary book which forces us to acknowledge that there was indeed an enemy~and that he was very much in our midst.
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0465003109ISBN 13: 9780465003105
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
1st Edition. [xix] 700p., b/w illus., dj.
Published by Basic Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0465003109ISBN 13: 9780465003105
Book First Edition
Condition: As New. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Clear wrap added to dust jacket. (Soviet Union, intelligence service, espionage, diplomatic relations).
Publication Date: 1999
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. NY 1999 first edition (stated) Basic Books. Hardcover thivck sm4to. 700p. Photo illus. Author Andew is Professor at Cambridge University. Perfect condition. Very Fine book in Very Fine dj. AS NEW. Unusued.
Published by Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1999
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgium
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. The sword and the shield the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB Special Collection by Christopher M. Andrew; Vasili Mitrokhin. Published by Basic Books, Inc. Publishers in 1999. Hardcover. The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source. Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network. Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident. Collectible item in excellent condition.