SMERSH
Subtitle: Stalin's secret weapon : Soviet military counterintelligence in WWII
By: Vadim J. Birstein ; foreword by Nigel West
Publisher: Biteback Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781849541084
Subjects: History; Intelligence service; World War, 1939-1945; Secret service; Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie kontrrazvedki "SMERSh."; Soviet Union
Other titles: Soviet military counterintelligence in WWII
Description: A study of SMERSH, a counterintelligence agency in the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, whose director reported directly to dictator Joseph Stalin, detailing the known activities of SMERSH, including "radio games" used to lure German intelligence into traps using captured German officers, mass vetting of Soviet troops who had been imprisoned by Germany, the arrest and persecution of Red Army generals, and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-494) and index.
Table of contents: title: The big picture; title: The roots of SMERSH; title: Military counterintelligence: July 1941-April 1943; title: German intelligence services at the Eastern front; title: The birth of SMERSH; title: SMERSH in action: 1943-44; title: Towards Berlin; title: The end of WWII; title: SMERSH after the war: 1945-46; title: Epilogue: the road to the top: Abakumov becomes a minister.