Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
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The Sword and the Shield is a compellingand historically significantnarrative destined to cast new light on the S
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oviet era.
About the Author
Christopher Andrew is professor of modern and contemporary history and chair of the History Department at Cambridge University, a former visiting professor of national security at Harvard, a frequent guest lecturer at other US universities and a regular host of BBC radio and TV programs. His bookswhich include Her Majestys Secret Service; KGB: The Inside Story (with Oleg Gordievsky); and For the Presidents Eyes Onlyhave established him as one of the worlds leading authorities on intelligence history.
Vasili Nikitich (19222004) was a Major and senior archivist for the Soviet Unions foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, and coauthor of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive. The second volume, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World, was published in 2005, soon after Mitrokhins death.
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