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Pavel Sudoplatov reveals how he organized Trotsky's assassination on Stalin's direct orders; the true fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of 100,000 Hungarian Jews; confirmation of the identity of the Fifth Man; and how Khrushchev engineered Beria's arrest of execution to whitewash his own complicity in Stalin's crimes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534927733009,"sku":"GOR001687094","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50588860252433,"sku":"GOR002645033","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51687130398993,"sku":"GOR004025975","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0751512400.jpg?v=1751106704"},{"product_id":"special-tasks-book-pavel-sudoplatov-9780316912174","title":"Special Tasks","description":"KGB defector spills the beans and gives the Russian answer to the cold war enigma.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562258899217,"sku":"GOR001435478","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50837844033809,"sku":"GOR001235789","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316912174.jpg?v=1750877266"},{"product_id":"special-tasks-book-pavel-sudoplatov-9780316821155","title":"Special Tasks","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis astonishing memoir written by a former KGB leader is a singular historical document from behind the Iron Curtain and \"the most informative autobiography ever to emerge from the Stalinist milieu\" (Robert Conquest). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks.This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. 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