Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clipped, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxiii + 509 pages.

This secret policeman's memoir contains explosive material. The atomic bomb secrets were betrayed not by the Rosenbergs but by none other than Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi. The motivations of octogenarian Sudoplatov, who managed the Soviet nuclear intelligence effort, in choosing to divulge this information now are less important than the news about the services he performed for Stalin and the damage he inflicted on the West. A skilled operative and admitted murderer--whose assassination in 1938 of a Ukrainian nationalist was rewarded by Stalin with his personal summons and then his direct order to liquidate Trotsky--Sudoplatov coldly records killing as a method of rule. The Kremlin intrigues he details will inspire major historical revision, damning, particularly, Khrushchev and, yet again, Beria. Sudoplatov's insights into the Kremlin's intrigues of the 1940s and 1950s, combined with the inevitable reappraisal of the Oppenheimer cause celebre, are astonishing evidence of secret influences in the domestic politics of both the U.S. and the USSR.

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Librería: Books of the World (US)
Inventario del vendedor #: RWARE0000004048
Título: Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster
Autor: Pavel Sudoplatov; Anatoli Sudoplatov; Jerrold L. Schecter; Leona P. Schecter; Robert Conquest (foreword)
Formato/Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Estado del libro: Usado - Near Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine
Cantidad disponible: 1
Edición: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0316773522
ISBN 13: 9780316773522
Editorial: Little Brown & Company
Lugar de publicación: Boston
Fecha de publicación: 1994
Páginas: xxiii + 509
Tamaño: 8vo
Palabras clave: autobiography, biography, memoir, Sudoplatov, history, espionage, intelligence, Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MGB, GRU, MVD, murder, sabotage, secret police, spy, atomic, nuclear, Stalin, Khrushchev, Beria, Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Trotsky, Soviet, Soviet Union
Catálogos del vendedor: History; Russia, Soviet Union, etc.; Biographies; Leadership & Management;

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