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Publisher:
Collaborators:
  • Yad Vashem
Year:
2017
Catalog number :
45-211022
ISBN:
978-965-7763-14-8
Pages:
496
Language:
Weight:
900 gr.
Cover:
Paperback

Forest Spies

The Intelligence Activity of the Soviet Partisans 1941-1945

Synopsis

This is a major, unprecedented study of the Soviet partisan movements' intelligence activity in 1941-1945, and its impact on the outcome of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. It contributes significantly to the understanding of the Soviet intelligence culture and practice during WWII, as well as to the study of the Holocaust, which is provided with clear well-documented evidence of the Soviet leadership's knowledge about the extermination of the local Jews by the Nazis and their supporters.

Reviews

"Forest Spies: The Intelligence Activity of the Soviet Partisans 1941-1945 is a thoughtful, wide-ranging, and politically unbiased study, based on the author’s analysis of archival documents, of an extremely important element of the Second World War:  the Soviet partisan movement." Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXXII, Samuel Barnai, May 2021
RTVI, an interview with Dr. Yaacov Falkov, laureate of the 2020 Historical Society Am VeOlam Prize, May 2021 (39:30) (Russian)