I SAW POLAND BETRAYED: AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR REPORTS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
by Lane, Arthur Bliss
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 344 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show slight wear, lightly rubbed head/tail edges, and mild sunning to the spine. Text block has faint age toning and light shelf wear to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column H, ND-H. 1379698. FP New Rockville Stock.
Synopsis
I saw Poland betrayed: An American ambassador reports to the American people (1948) is a book written by Arthur Bliss Lane, former U.S. ambassador to Poland, who observed what he considered to be the betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies at the end of World War II. A Polish version of the book was published in the United States, and later republished by an underground publishing house "Krąg" in 1984 in Communist-dominated Poland.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1379698
- Title
- I SAW POLAND BETRAYED: AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR REPORTS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
- Author
- Lane, Arthur Bliss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis and New York
- Date Published
- 1948
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