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Verlag: Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the early James Bond novels 007 is pitched against SMERSH, a top secret Soviet agency dedicated to the subversion of the West and the assassination of Western spies. Bond's creator Ian Fleming took his inspiration from true life, but the real Smersh was far more savage than Bond's fictional nemesis. Smersh is the acronym for the Russian words Death to spiesA" which was the name of the Soviet counterintelligence organisation dedicated to the elimination of anti-communist activity during the Second World War. Far from the kitsch villains of Fleming's imagining, Smersh was a key part of Stalin's terror apparatus - a collection of torturers and killers unleashed with brutal affect in 1943 to cut a bloody swathe of death across Eastern Europe until being absorbed into the NKVD, predecessor of the KGB, after the war. Under the aegis of the notoriously brutal Viktor Abakumov, who would personally torture prisoners, Smersh was used to filterA" the Red Army for spies, saboteurs, and traitors. In reality it was responsible for the arrest, torture and execution of many thousands of Soviet servicemen, as well as innocent citizens of countries occupied by the Red Army as it fought the Nazis across Europe. So intrinsic was Smersh to Stalin's regime as Soviet armies began their conquest of German territory that the outfit was charged with capturing Hitler, eventually finding and identifying the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. Despite its significant role during and after the war, Smersh's activities are almost completely unknown outside the Soviet Union. Partly because its savagery casts a shadow, even now, across Russia and Eastern Europe; partly because of the complete secrecy that surrounded its existence. In Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Dr. Vadim Birstein makes comprehensive use of recently released Russian military archives in Moscow and speaks to survivors and victims of Smersh to tell, for the first time, one of the darkest stories in Soviet Russia's history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. SMERSH, acronym of the Russian phrase Death to Spies, is primarily known to readers as James Bonds sinister opponent in Ian Flemings novels. Yet SMERSH was a real organization and just as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. No information was available on this organization until the fall of the Soviet Union, and its importance to WWII history is almost completely unknown to scholars and history readers alike. Ostensibly a military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, SMERSH spent considerable time and effort terrifying its own, including writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was arrested for writing to a fellow officer. Its activities often strayed into the political sphere, exemplified by the arrests of many political leaders and foreign diplomats in Eastern Europe, including the famous rescuer of Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg, at the end of WWII.While it was formally part of the Defence Commissariat, SMERSH was not under the control of the military hierarchy. In reality it was a secret service independent of the other Soviet security organizations. Its head, Viktor Abakumov, a shadowy and powerful figure whose biography is revealed here for the first time, reported directly to Joseph Stalin on a daily basis.Based on a huge number of documents and memoirs available only in Russian, the book details all the known activities of SMERSH its clever radio games, which used captured German officers to lure German intelligence into traps, mass vetting of Soviet troops who had been prisoners of the Germans, arrest and persecution of Red Army generals, infiltration of Nazi spy schools, participation in military tribunals and the Special Board of the NKVD, and participation in the Nuremberg trials and the Sovietization of Eastern Europe. Now, after ten years of research, a critical missing piece of the history of WWII and the Soviet secret services is finally exposed.
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: Klondyke, Almere, Niederlande
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Zustand: Good.
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: Henffordd Books, Herefordshire, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing 2011. Slight rubbing to edges of dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in excellent condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.
Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 1849541086ISBN 13: 9781849541084
Anbieter: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Brand New!.