Book Review: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. New York: Basic Books, 1999. ISBN 0-465-00310-9. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 700. $32.50.

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Book Review: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. New York: Basic Books, 1999. ISBN 0-465-00310-9. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 700. $32.50.

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Book Review: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. New York: Basic Books, 1999. ISBN 0-465-00310-9. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 700. $32.50.

A. Webster

Journal of Military History, Vol.64(3), pp.914-915

2000

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Vasili Mitrokhin was a trusted but disillusioned worker in the KGB archives who, over a twelve-year period, secretly took thousands of pages of notes from myriad secret files...

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Title: Book Review: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. New York: Basic Books, 1999. ISBN 0-465-00310-9. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 700. $32.50.
Authors/Creators: A. Webster (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: Journal of Military History, Vol.64(3), pp.914-915
Publisher: Society for Military History
Identifiers: 991005540586407891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Publisher URL: http://www.smh-hq.org/jmh.html

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