Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. 366, illus., appendices, bibliography, index, edges of DJ somewhat worn and small tears. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. 366, illus., appendices, bibliography, index, few library markings, spine lettering faded. More

Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 296 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inscribed by the author, Francis Gary Powers Jr., on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Bob, Best wishes, Francis Gary Powers Jr. Includes Foreword by Sergei Khrushchev. Also includes Authors' Note, Introduction, Notes, and Index, as well as Chapters on The Restless Heart; Open Skies; Mayday; Repatriated; Lost in a Crowd; Searching for the Truth; Voice from the Grave; The Last Echo; and Unfinished Business. Also includes Acknowledgments, List of Interviews Conducted by Keith Dunnavant, Notes, and Index. One of the most talked about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Now his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., founder of the Cold War Museum, and acclaimed historian Keith Dunnavant have written this new account of Powers's life based on personal files that had never been previously available. The result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 453, footnotes, index, errata slip laid in, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More

New York: Freedom House, c1997. 28 cm, 63, wraps, maps, slight wear and soiling to covers. More

Boulder, CO: CEP Inc., 1985. Updated Edition. Wraps. 505 pages, wraps, illus., diagrams, tape residue at bottom of spine, some wear and soiling to covers. Lee Lapin, 1948–2009, was a popular surveillance and espionage author, best known for his offbeat, grammatically questionable, yet information-rich instructional book series, How to Get Anything On Anybody. The series is published by Paladin Press, is now in its third revision, and is frequently included in library collections across North America. Lapin reportedly lived on a small island off the coast of Marin County, California where, for relaxation, he raised wolves. Lee Lapin was the nom de plume of Scott French. He died January 11, 2009, at the home of his son in Colorado. More

New York: Knopf, 1967. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 328, bibliography, index. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. First Printing. 22 cm, 204, erasure residue on front endpaper. More

New York: Random House, 2014. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 251, [11] pages. Map. Signed by author on fep. DJ has 'Signed copy" sticker on front. Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. While attending general studies courses at Columbia University, he became acquainted with Margaret Mead, for whom he later worked. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. More

New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 210, [2] pages. Ex-library with usual library markings. DJ has been pasted to boards. Slightly cocked. Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, and sailor. He is known for his novels Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty and his classic memoir of early commercial aviation Fate is the Hunter, all of which were made into major motion pictures. During 1942, many U.S. airlines' pilots and aircraft were absorbed into the Air Transport Command of the United States Army Air Forces to assist with the war effort. Gann and many of his co-workers at American volunteered to join the group. He flew DC-3s, Douglas DC-4s and Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express transports (the cargo version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber). His wartime flights took him across the North Atlantic to Europe, and thence to Africa, South America, India, and other exotic places. Some of his most harrowing experiences came while flying The Hump airlift across the Himalayas into China. During the years to come Gann's worldwide travels and various adventures would become the inspiration for many of his novels and screenplays. More

New York, N.Y. Dover Publications, Inc., 1984. Reprint. Originally published in New York by Simon & Schuster. Trade paperback. 96 pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear. Includes Introduction. Also includes chapters on Easy Transposition Ciphers; Easy Substitution Ciphers; How to Break Substitution Ciphers; Hard-to-break Polyalphabetic Ciphers; Simple Code Machines; Invisible Writing; Bizarre Methods of Message Sending; and Codes for Other Worlds. Also contains References for Further Reading. Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books. Gardner was best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics—and by extension, mathematics in general—throughout the latter half of the 20th century, principally through his "Mathematical Games" columns. These appeared for twenty-five years in Scientific American, and his subsequent books collecting them. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. 604 pages, illus., notes, index, slight wear to DJ. More

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. More