Special Tasks : From the New Foreword by Robert Conquest by Anatoli Sudoplatov
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780316821155
- Book Title
- Special Tasks : from the New Foreword by Robert Conquest
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Political Science, True Crime, History
- Topic
- Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage, General
- Item Weight
- 25 oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316821152
ISBN-13
9780316821155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1606402
Product Key Features
Book Title
Special Tasks : from the New Foreword by Robert Conquest
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage, General
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-147290
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
327.1247/092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks. This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities-- and the rulers who ordered them-- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation. "Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire., This astonishing memoir written by a former KGB leader is a singular historical document from behind the Iron Curtain and "the most informative autobiography ever to emerge from the Stalinist milieu" (Robert Conquest). According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks.This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities -- and the rulers who ordered them -- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation.
LC Classification Number
JN6529.I6S83 1995
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