Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII
Why is a book about SMERSH relevant today? As Mr. Birstein takes pains to point out, "the present Russian government seems intent on whitewashing Stalin's atrocities and the history of the Soviet security services." --The Washington Times, Feb 28, 2012Vadim Birstein'sSMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weaponhas won the inauguralSt Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2012. Birstein's title is "a very absorbing, thoroughly readable, extraordinarily detailed account of an organisation that...had a terrible, bloody history " according to the judges.--The Bookseller, 13 June 2012"Dr. Vadim Birsteinhas written an authoritative and much-needed new study of the Soviet Union’s feared SMERSH counterintelligence agency…bringing to life the increasingly forgotten harsh reality of the Communist police state."—Richard R. Valcourt, Editor-in-Chief,International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence