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Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This is a Black board Russia KGB history hardback in Near Fine condition with a Very Good Jacket. c1999, 1st edition, 1st Printing. This is a very sturdy and square book. The cover is Very Bright & clean the edges are very nice with a little bottom spine end wrinkle. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked, no names. The jacket, with price is nice with very good edges. Some shelf wear on back side. Heavy Book! 700 Pages. Heavy book media mail only. #20522-1123

New York, NY: Basic Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 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. .

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New York: Basic Books, 1999. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Two lower corners have small creases. The dust jacket has just a little shelfwear and is in new mylar.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History.

London, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1999.. pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W plates. A near fine copy.. First UK edition.

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New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxxiii, [3], 676, [4] p. Illustrations. Transliterstion. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of "The Sword and the Shield" in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist. Unknown to his superiors, Mitrokhin had spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled out of the KGB archives. The FBI described the archive as "the greatest single cache of intelligence every received by the West." In "The Sword and the Shield, " Christopher Andrew revealed the secrets of the KGB's operations in the United States and Europe; now in "The World Was Going Our Way, " he has written the first… Read More

New York: Basic Books, 2003. Fifth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. xxxv. [1], 700 pages. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Personal non-author inscription on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Christopher Maurice Andrew, FRHistS (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. Andrew is a former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard. Andrew served as co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, and a presenter of BBC radio and TV documentaries. His twelve previous books include a number of studies on the use and abuse of… Read More

London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1999 0713993588. First edition. Fine. First impression. Complete numberline. No DW. No inscriptions or annotations. 996 pages including index. Numerous B/W photos. 6" by 9.5". This is a very heavy tome which will require extra postage. Written by the foremost British historian of the KGB and the man who smuggled the priceless archive out of Russia. This book is the authoritative revision of the history of the Soviet intelligence agency's penetration of the West during the Cold War. .

New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2005. True First US Edition 1st Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. Number line: 05 06 07 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Evolution of the KGB, 1917- 1991. Foreword: Vasili Mitrokin and His Archive. Acknowledgements. Introduction: ' The World Was Going Our Way '. Book divisions: Latin America, The Middle East, Asia, Africa, Conclusion: The KGB in Russia and the World. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 493 pp. plus: Appendices A through E, Notes, Bibliography, Index. 677 pp. in toto. Book has lightly rubbed spine ends. Unclipped DJ has slight edge/shelf wear. Book weighs 2 1/2 lb. and may incur extra shipping costs. Bookseller's Inventory # 170227.