The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew
Published 1999 · 736 pages · 202,400 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.