Soviet Naval Operations in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1981. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 393, Perhaps the definitive Soviet perspective of their experience in WWII. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1981. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 393, Perhaps the definitive Soviet perspective of their experience in WWII. More
New York, N.Y. Random House, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. xi, [1], 592, [4] pages. Selective Glossary. Inscribed For Jim Trefil, phisicist, from V. A., lyricist; my best wishes. V. Aksyonov. Chapters are Scythian Helmets; The Kremlin and Its Neighborhood; First Intermission; Second Intermission; The Chopin Cure; The General Line; The Theatrical Avant-Garde; Trotsky's on the Wall; Third Intermission; Fourth Intermission; The Village of Gorelovo and the Luch Collective Farm; Bags of Oxygen; Keen Eyes, Doves, and Little Stars; Tennis, Surgery, and Defensive Measures; The Charlatan Organ Grinder; Life-Giving Bacilli; Firth Intermission, Sixth Intermission; Count Olsufiev's Mansion; Indestructible and Legendary; Come on, Girls, Lend a Hand, Beauties! Above the Eternal Rest; I Recommend That You Not Cry! "I Dream of Hunchbacked Tiflis"; Marble Steps; Seventh Intermission; and Eighth Intermission; Listen--the Thump of Boots; Fireworks by Night; Underground Bivouac, First Intermission, Second Intermission, Dry Rations, Le Bemol; The Poor Boys; The Special Strike Force, Third Intermission, Fourth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Summer, Youth; A Sentimental Direction; We'll Waltz in the Kremlin; Officers' Candidate School; Seventh Intermission; Eighth Intermission; A Concert for the Front; Vertuti Militari; Temptation by Word; The Ozone Layer; The Path of October; Ninth Intermission; and Tenth Intermission. More
New York, N. Y. Random House, 1999. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. xii, 482, [2] pages. Inscribed to Willy and Kathleen Warner, from their Foxhall, as well as Porcupine Cave, friend Vasya Ansyonov on January 16, 2000. Chapters cover The Procession; The Boulevard; The Premiere; The Terrace; The Sound of the Old Woman; The Lion in the Alioto; Miracle in Atlanta; The Border; Three Points of View; At Night on the Piazza Cicerna; A Quote; and A Meeting. Derived from a Kirkus review: It’s the picaresque history of singer-actor Alexander “Sasha” Korbach’s 13-year (1982—95) odyssey in and out of favor with Soviet authorities, pursuit of the good life in America, and lifelong search for a personal aesthetic—a “new sweet style” compounded of abstract universal and mundane specific elements. Aksyonov tells Sasha’s often beguiling story in a voice that addresses the reader directly. Aksyonov’s ego-driven antihero is an engaging bundle of sexual and creative energies, and the parade of characters orbiting around him—his enthusiastically Americanized ex- wife Anisia, fellow Russian-Americans like Bellovian hustler Tikhomir Barevyatnikov and sexual gameswoman Lenore Yablonsky, and especially Sasha’s American mistress Nora Mansour and her father, his “fourth cousin,” department-store millionaire philanthropist Stanley Korbach. They all have their own unruly reality, and help broaden the novel’s scope. The details of Sasha’s several careers-as filmmaker, professor, and “chairman of the Moscow branch of the Korbach Fund”-are also cunningly manipulated to bring the story to an absolutely stunning comic-apocalyptic conclusion in Jerusalem. Aksyonov’s fiction is well worth it. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [c1951]. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 856, illus., maps (some color fold-out), usual library markings, boards somewhat soiled and edges worn. More
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. x, 205, [1] pages. Glossary of Names and Terms. Notes. Index. Ken Aldred was Director of the Council for Arms Control, an independent research body operating within the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London. He was Secretary-General of the national pro-NATO campaigning body Peace Through NATO and was awarded the OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours. Martin A. Smith was Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. His publications in the field of European and international security include On Rocky Foundations: NATO, the UN and Peace Operations in the Post-Cold War Era. More
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1960. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. v, [1], 23, [1], 1, [1] p. Index. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 246 pages. Decorative endpapers. Illustrations. Notes. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Name and date in ink on fep. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated. She was Stalin's last surviving child. After her father's death in 1953, Alliluyeva worked as a lecturer and translator in Moscow. Her training was in History and Political Thought, a subject she was forced to study by her father, although her true passion was literature and writing. In a 2010 interview, she stated that his refusal to let her study arts and his treatment of Kapler were the two times that Stalin "broke my life," and that Stalin loved her but was "a very simple man. Very rude. Very cruel." While in the Soviet Union, Alliluyeva had written a memoir in Russian in 1963. The manuscript was carried safely out of the country by Indian Ambassador T. N. Kaul, who returned it to her in New Delhi. Alliluyeva handed her memoir over to the CIA agent Robert Rayle at the time of her own defection. Rayle made a copy of it. The book was titled Twenty Letters to a Friend ("Dvadtsat' pisem k drugu"). It was the only thing other than a few items of clothing taken by Alliluyeva on a secret passenger flight out of India. More
Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1971. Readers Union Edition. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. 282, [6] pages. Footnotes. Boards have some wear, soiling and corner bumping. Some edge soiling. Foreword by Max Hayward. Author's Preface, Note about the Author. Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik (12 May 1938, Moscow – 12 November 1980), alternatively spelled Andrei or Andrey, was a Russian writer and dissident. Amalrik was best known in the Western world for his 1970 essay, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?. For several months after the publication of Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? (1970) and Involuntary Journey to Siberia (August 1970), abroad, a criminal offense under Soviet law. Inevitably, for "defaming the Soviet state", Amalrik was arrested on May 21, 1970 and convicted on November 12, receiving a sentence of three years in a labor camp in Kolyma. At the end of his term, he was given three more years, but because of his poor health and protests from the West, the sentence was commuted after one year to exile in the same region. After serving a five-year term, he returned to Moscow in 1975. On September 13, 1975, Amalrik was arrested again. The police captain told his wife that he was arrested for not having permission to live in Moscow; he could have faced a fine or up to one year in prison for violating Soviet passport regulations. In early 1976, Amalrik and other dissidents conceived the idea of the Moscow Helsinki Group; it was formed in May 1976. The KGB gave Amalrik an ultimatum: to emigrate or face another sentence. In 1976 his family got visas to go to the Netherlands. More
New York: Basic Books, 2003. Fifth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxxv. [1], 700 pages. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Personal non-author inscription on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Christopher Maurice Andrew, FRHistS (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. Andrew is a former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard. Andrew served as co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, and a presenter of BBC radio and TV documentaries. His twelve previous books include a number of studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history. Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of his notes purporting to be written copies of KGB files. These became known as the Mitrokhin Archives. The intelligence files given by Mitrokhin to the MI6 exposed an unknown number of Soviet agents, including Melita Norwood. He was co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 219, acronyms, chapter notes, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Introduction by J. William Fulbright. More
New York: W. Morrow, c1987. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 288, illus., DJ scuffed, worn, and torn at edges, edges soiled. More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. 243 pages. Notes, index, DJ somewhat soiled: small tears, edges worn, larger tear & crease fr DJ. Presentation copy signed by authors. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1984. First Printing. 23 cm, 326, wraps, notes, index, covers worn, some creasing to covers. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 255, chapter notes, index, bookplate, stamp on front endpaper, slight edge soiling. Introduction by Robert Conquest. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. First Printing. 183, slight wear and soiling to DJ, DJ spine label has been removed. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, [1963]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 381, illus., endpaper maps, facsims., index. Inscribed by the author (Belli). More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990. 24 cm, 203, acid-free paper, illus., maps. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 491, List of Acronyms. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. This is a research volume from the Institute for East-West Security Studies. Among the contributors are: Richard Kugler, Alexei Arbatov, Ian Cuthbertson, Jonathan Dean, Timothy Wirth, and Arnold Kanter. Robert Dean Blackwill (born August 8, 1939) is a retired American diplomat, author, and a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. Blackwill served as the United States Ambassador to India under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and as United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq from 2003 to 2004, where he was a liaison between Paul Bremer and Condoleezza Rice. President Ronald Reagan nominated him to Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor on March 29, 1985, and designated him to be the chief negotiator of the US with the Warsaw Pact for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks. Blackwill served in this position with the rank of Ambassador. On March 13, 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Blackwill as special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and as senior director for European and Soviet Affairs. From 1978 to 1981, F. Stephen Larrabee served on the U.S. National Security Council staff in the White House as a specialist on Soviet–East European affairs and East-West political-military relations. He then held the Distinguished Chair in European Security at the RAND Corporation. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981. 29 cm, 269, illus., small tear in rear DJ, ink notation on front endpaper. More
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c1993. First Printing. 23 cm, 148, maps, erasure residue inside front endpaper. More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. 1961. 164, wraps, illus., top corner of covers and a few pages bent, some wear to covers and spine. More
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Pub. Company, c1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 332, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 600, v.3 only of 3-vol. set, illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index, some wear and creasing to DJ edges. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982. Second Edition. Second Printing. 16 x 25 cm, 610, illus., bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to DJ, edges soiled. More
Sarov: RFNC-VNIIEF, 2007. Three-hole punched Xerox-like copy in English. Disbound in accordion folder. 460 pages. In English. Illustrations (some in color). Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Gorkiy-130 and Arzamas-16, after a (somewhat) nearby town of Arzamas, from 1946 to 1991. Until 1995, it was known as Kremlyov/Kremlev/Kremljov. The town is closed as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. In 1993, the town became a sister city to Los Alamos, New Mexico, the home of the U.S. nuclear weapons design laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory, or LANL). Scientists from LANL and VNIIEF have cooperated on various arms control and nuclear safeguards programs, under which the Los Alamos scientists learned, to their amusement, that their Russian colleagues paid homage to their American rivals by irreverently calling their own laboratory "Los Arzamas." It was the first Soviet nuclear weapon development and production center. Initially a KB-11 design bureau was established there, that was developing nuclear weapons. Research and development activities began in 1947. During the same year security forces began to build a perimeter across the closed area. In 1947 the city was removed from all official Soviet maps and statistical documents. The isolation of the area was completed by 1948. The existence of this city was made public and it appeared on the maps only in 1994. This city is a home to two nuclear weapon facilities - design institute and warhead assembly/disassembly facility. Today this city is known as Sarov. It is the main Russian nuclear weapons development and production center. More