Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A primary source examination of the infiltration of Stalin's Soviet intelligence network by members of the American government during World War II reveals the dictator's dubious partnerships with such top-level figures as Vice President Henry Wallace andchief advisor Harry Hopkins.

Cold War beginnings--a classic true-spy story told by one of the great Soviet spies.

Filled with dramatic revelations, "The Lost Spy" may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation, exploring the life and death of Isaiah Oggins, one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. of illustrations.

SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror they actually spread in the name of their dictator. Stalin drew a veil of secrecy over SMERSH's operations in 1946, but that did not stop him using it to terrify Red Army dissenters in Leningrad and Moscow, or to abduct and execute suspected spooks - often without cause - across mainland Europe. Formed to mop up Nazi spy rings at the end of the Second World War, SMERSH gained its name from a combination of the Russian words for 'Death to Spies'. Successive Communist governments suppressed traces of Stalin's political hit squad; now Vadim Birstein lays bare the surgical brutality with which it exerted its influence as part of the paranoid regime, both within the Soviet Union and in the wider world. SMERSH was the most mysterious and secret of organisations - this definitive and magisterial history finally reveals truths that lay buried for nearly fifty years.

Krivitsky was the first high-ranking Soviet intelligence official to defect & reveal his secrets in 1939. Europe was too dangerous for him to hide in. He was convinced he would be safe in America. But he was trapped by all the secrets he carried with him. Krivitsky had run a network of agents in almost every country in Europe. Stalin had to act quickly to protect his vast espionage network. From that moment on there would be no escape from the Soviet assassination squad. Krivitsky's first-hand account as the top Soviet espionage officer in western Europe & his ultimate defection is a fundamental document of the crisis preceding WW2. It reveals the horrors of Stalin's Great Terror as the dictator purged the ranks of the Soviet hierarchy. Photos.