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Daughters of the KGB: Moscow´s Secret Spies, Sleepers and Assassins of the Cold War
Douglas Boyd
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Description for Daughters of the KGB: Moscow´s Secret Spies, Sleepers and Assassins of the Cold War
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD – a predecessor of the KGB – officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania’s Securitate, Bulgaria’s KDS, Albania’s Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings – in GDR 1953, Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750958509
SKU
V9780750958509
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99-43
About Douglas Boyd
DOUGLAS BOYD was trained as a Russian language snooper on Warsaw Pact air forces, based at a secret RAF SIGINT base in Berlin. He first put his lifelong fascination with history to professional use when scripting and directing historical reconstructions as a BBC Television producer, and he is a well-published author of books such as 'Moscow Rules' and 'The Other ... Read more
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