The Mitrokhin Archive by Andrew, First Edition (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tanned edges o/w clean, unmarked copy with a solid, crease-free spine. KRM/Espionage.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus, 7th Printing. Not price-clipped ($24.00 price intact). Published by Basic Books, 2001. Octavo. Book is like new with light spotting to page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1999 hardcover release) first printing of a near fine softcover with textblock toning and one spine crease, with no jacket as issued. The definitive intelligence on the 70 years of the KGB, and its reach into Western civilization. This copy has a new introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rubbing to the edges of the DJ. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Espionage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; Third Printing. B&W Photographs; 700 pages; Very Good overall condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. First printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine DJ , now protected in archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #159.

1st Edition. [xix] 700p., b/w illus., dj.

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.

pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W plates. A near fine copy. First UK edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ in very good condition. DJ is clean and glossy, no fading. Bound with black paper over boards, gold lettering on the spine. Pages are clean and crisp. There are two small spots of light creasing at the top of the pages. Number line is 99 00 01 02 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Copyright date is 1999. 700 pages. Stated first edition. Signed by the author, Christopher Andrew on the page opposite the title page, addressed to E. J. Dionne, an American journalist, political commentator, and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).

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.