The Sword and the Shield
Subtitle: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: September 5, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780465003129
First sentence: This book is based on unprecedented and unrestricted access to one of the world's most secret and closely guarded archives-that of the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB, the First Chief Directorate (FCD).