Deyatel'nost' spetssluzhb yavlyaetsya neot"emlemoy chast'yu vneshney politiki lyuboy strany. Osobenno ikh rol' vozrastaet v period voennykh deystviy. A interes k taynomu protivostoyaniyu SSSR i Germanii v gody Velikoy Otechestvennoy Voyny (1941-1945) ne ugasaet do sikh por. Dannaya kniga predstavlyaet soboy kompleksnyy analiz struktury i sistemy raboty razvedyvatel'nykh organov dvukh stran i mozhet stat' vazhnym klyuchom k ponimaniyu proizoshedshikh sobytiy.