{"product_id":"2940169544909","title":"The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp class=\"DefaultText\"\u003eBased on unprecedented access to a secret archive\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eof intelligence,\u003cem\u003e The Sword and the Shield\u003c\/em\u003e presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"DefaultText\"\u003eVasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB. 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. Now he has offered Christopher Andrew exclusive access to his archive. The picture that emerges in this sobering book will force us to acknowledge that there was indeed an enemy¿and that he was very much in our midst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114532028656,"sku":"2940169544909","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169544909_p0.jpg?v=1769896078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169544909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}