Spies Av Calder Walton

<p><b><h3>The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China</h3></b><br><br><b>''A masterpiece'' </b>CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of <i>The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5</i><br><br><b>''The book we have all been waiting for'' </b>BRENDAN SIMMS, author of <i>Hitler: A Global Biography</i><br><br><b>''Gripping, authoritative... A vivid account of intelligence skulduggery'' </b><i>Kirkus</i><br><br>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. <i>Spies</i> 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