New York: Bantam, 1981. Bantam edition, first printing. Trade paperback. 404 p.; 18 cm. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. 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

New York: Simon & Schuster {A Touchstone Book}, 1997. First Touchstone Edition [Stated]. First 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

New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 314 pages. Notes. Index. A few ink marks noted. Masha Gessen (born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the former president of the United States, Donald Trump. Gessen writes primarily in English but also in their native Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, they have been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, has been a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gessen worked as a translator on the FX TV channel historical drama The Americans. More

New York: Morrow, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 320, illus. Inscribed by the author. More

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 769, [1] pages. Foreword by Martin McCauley. A Note on Russian Names. Footnotes. Illustrations. Chronology. Glossary by Martin McCauley. Biographies. Index. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Signature on title page appears from comparison with some internet images to be that of Gorbachev. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was General Secretary of the governing Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically a socialist, he initially adhered to Marxism-Leninism although following the Soviet collapse moved toward social democracy. More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books Limited, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 276 pages. Selected Bibliography. Index. Pencil marks and comments noted. DJ has some wear, tape replair and soiling. Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC FRSC (born May 21, 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history. Granatstein served in the Canadian Army from 1956 to 1966. He then taught at York University until 1996 where he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus. He was the Chair of the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century. David Alexander Tetlow Stafford (born 10 March 1942) is projects director at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars. He became director of studies (1985–86) and executive director (1986–92) at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto. Stafford is particularly noted for his scholarly works concerning Winston Churchill and British intelligence, various aspects of the Second World War, and Twentieth Century intelligence and espionage with a focus on Britain. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. x, 462 pages. Map. Illustrations. Index. More

New York: Forge, 2008. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 381 p. Afterword. Bibliography. More

Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc, 1988. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 276 p. Occasional footnotes. More

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxvii, [1], 95, [5] pages. Author's Note. Maps. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Robert, with respect, admiration & friendship. Bruce 6/9/14. Bruce Held has spent the many years in Washington, D.C., filling a number of key roles at the U.S. Department of Energy, including director of intelligence and counterintelligence and a stint — for most of a year — as acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration. During that time, government duty separated him from his wife, Lani, except for his occasional weekend trips to their home in New Mexico. Held’s first career was as a clandestine operations officer with the CIA, and he previously authored, “A Spy’s Guide to the Kennedy Assassination,” as well as “A Spy’s Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.”. More

Portland, OR: Multnomah, c1991. First Printing. 24 cm, 520. More

New York: Dorset Press, 1990. Reprint Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 313, Notes. Bibliography. Index. Slight wear to top and bottom DJ edges. Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature. Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov). He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov. He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward. He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards. The history of the Russian secret police from 1565 (when Ivan the Terrible established the Oprichnina) to 1970. This book is a reprint of the edition originally published in 1970. More