The Secret of Stalingrad
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 274, illus., maps, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index, small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 274, illus., maps, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index, small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
New York: Scribner, c1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 305 pages, illustrations, notes, glossary, index. Some scuffing to dust jacket, small stains to book edges. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 144, illus., sources. More
New York: W.W. Norton, c1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 317, illus. Inscribed by the author (Yelena Khanga). More
Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, Ltd., 1989. Prepublication Edition. Hardcover. 262 pages. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1961]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 545, DJ worn, front DJ damaged at top, ink notation on DJ flap. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Book Club Edition. 639, illus., appendices, index, DJ worn and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Third Printing. 639, illus., appendices, index, ink name inside front board, DJ creased, DJ edges worn & small chips, some soiling to fore-edge. More
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 233, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: Jan 28/ 2008, To John Mandel--a student of Russia and Nabokov. Nina L. Khrushcheva [the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev]. Includes Acknowledgments, Note on Transliteration and Translations; List of Abbreviations; Chronology: Works by Vladimir Sirin and Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction: Nabokov and Us; and Prologue: Nabokov's Russian Return...and Retreat. Also contains chapters on Imagining Nabokov; On the Way to the Author; Poet, Genius, and Hero. Also contains Epilogue: Nabokov as the Pushkin of the Twenty-first Century, Envoi, Notes, and Select Bibliography. Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (born 1964) is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, USA, a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New York, USA, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). The author wrote: I am in love with Vladimir Nabokov, Russian turned American author of Lolita, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory. I love him so much I went to Montreux, a resort town in Switzerland, to talk to his statue, to pay homage to this great traveler, a traveler so profound that much of his life he lived in a hotel. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957. First Printing. 270, maps, index, fore-edge stained and somewhat soiled, DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. 264, footnotes, appendix, index, some soiling inside front board and flyleaf, slight wear to board and spine edges. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. 264, footnotes, appendix, index, usual library markings, soiling & discoloration inside boards & flyleavesDJ in worn plastic sleeve (small piece of sleeve missing), rough spots inside front flyleaf where library pocket has been removed. The author argues that the strategic nuclear superiority of the United States has been the major contribution to whatever tenuous stability the world enjoys. More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. 237, footnotes, tables, charts, appendices, bibliography, index, ink notation inside front flyleaf, DJ scuffed. More
New York: Norton, c1984. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 350, DJ soiled, some wear to DJ. More
New York: Everest House, 1981. First Edition. 407, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some wear to edges: small tears. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1981. First Printing thus [Stated] Originally published by Everest House in 1981. Trade paperback. 407, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendices. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Signed by author on title page. Cover is worn, soiled, torn and chipped. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 318, usual library markings An in-depth examination of what happened to the KGB with the collapse of the Soviet Union. More
Washington, DC: Cato Institute, January 15, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 15, [1] pages, including covers. Notes Oversized item, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Stanley Kober, associated with the Cato Institute, is a former Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His areas of expertise include the relationship between democracy and peace, with a focus on control over the war power, and American grand strategy. He has lectured in the United States and abroad, and his work has appeared in Foreign Policy, International Affairs (London), the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Kober previously worked on Soviet and defense issues at SRI International (where he was managing editor of the journal, Comparative Strategy), the Center for Naval Analyses, and the Hudson Institute. More
Washington, DC: Center for Study of Intelligence, CIA History Staff, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 28 cm. xxii, [2], 297, [7] pages. Oversized--format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Wraps. Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Contains estimates of the 1950s which portray the Soviet Union as aggressive but unwilling to take foolish risks. The question became to determine what risks the Soviet Union would be willing to take in any given circumstance. Scott A. Koch was a member of the CIA History Staff, joining it in 1992. Prior to that he had bee a military analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. He earned a Doctorate in History from Duke University in 1990. More
Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, 1993. Quarto, 297, wraps, footnotes, charts, appendix, some wear to covers and spine. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First U. S. Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 267, [1] pages. Small tears at top and bottom edges of spine, wear to edges of boards. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Discoloration and small stains inside boards and flyleaves, ink name ins front flyleaf. Pages slightly darkened, board corners worn. Somewhat cocked. Arthur Koestler, CBE (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until, disillusioned by Stalinism, he resigned in 1938. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, from his residence in Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes, and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies and numerous essays. In 1968 he was awarded the Sonning Prize "for [his] outstanding contribution to European culture" and in 1972 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1976 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and in 1979 with terminal leukemia. In 1983 he and his wife killed themselves at their home in London. More
Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami, 1973. 24 cm, 241. More
Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1958. 23 cm, 257, tables, footnotes, index, usual library markings, part of DJ pasted to rear endpaper and rear board, highlighting/underlining. More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. 297 pages. Wraps, text darkened, covers & spine soiled & stained, tears at spine. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. More
Washington DC: Arizona State University, The McCain Institute For International Leadership, 2017. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [4], ii, 138 pages. Footnotes. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Cover has slight wear and soiling. David J. Kramer (born 1964) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2008 to 2009. He was President of Freedom House from October 2010 to November 2014, and later worked at the McCain Institute. Following a professorship at the Florida International University, he became executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. Kramer began his government service in April 2000, when he joined the United States Department of State as Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. In June 2001, he served as Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky. In October 2003, Kramer became a professional staff member for the Policy Planning Staff. From July 2005 to March 2008, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In 2008, President of the United States George W. Bush nominated Kramer as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and, after confirmation, he held this office to January 20, 2009. In his book, Back to Containment, published in 2017, Kramer excoriated various elder statesmen of the United States, such as Henry Kissinger, for undertaking hybrid back-channel efforts to re-approach Russia, accusing them of violation of the Logan Act. Kramer contends that these actions undermined American security vis-a-vis Russia and the region, citing Kissinger's inclusion into Myrotvorets, Ukraine's blacklist. More