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Mayday : Eisenhower, Krushchev and the U-2 Affair
by Beschloss, Michael R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0060155655
- ISBN 13
- 9780060155650
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated. The complete and fascinating account of the 1960 'U-2' spyplane incident during the Cold War conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, embarrassing the US and giving the Russians a huge propaganda coup. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains maps, glossy illustrations, appendix, historiographical note, sources, notes, indexed, 494pp., binding slightly loose, d.j. shows lightest of edgewear. A very good working and reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- JB Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00006163
- Title
- Mayday : Eisenhower, Krushchev and the U-2 Affair
- Author
- Beschloss, Michael R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition (stated).
- ISBN 10
- 0060155655
- ISBN 13
- 9780060155650
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- US HISTORY, EUROPEAN PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, IKE, NIKITA KRUSCHCHEV, SOVIET UNION, USSR, RUSSIA, RUSSIANS, U-2, SURVEILLANCE, SPYING, SPIES, INTELLIGENCE, COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE, ESPIONAGE, COUNTER-ESPIONAGE, COLD WAR, WHITE HOUSE, OVAL OFFICE, PRES
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- General; Us History; European History;
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