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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China
''A masterpiece'' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5
''The book we have all been waiting for'' BRENDAN SIMMS, author of Hitler: A Global Biography
''Gripping, authoritative... A vivid account of intelligence skulduggery'' Kirkus
Espionage, election meddling, disinformation, assassinations, subversion, and sabotage - all attract headlines today about Putin''s dictatorship. But they are far from new. The West has a long-term Russia problem, not a Putin problem. Spies mines hitherto secret archives and exclusive interviews with former agents to tell the history of the war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage dark arts were the Kremlin''s means to equalise the imbalance of arms
