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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Russian Year - The Notebook Of An Amateur Diplomat. Book.

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Octavo, hardcover, VG+ in beige boards with brown lettering and design. Surprisingly well preserved. Pages beginning to tan at edges. Clean and tight. 189 pages. The story of a year spent in the Soviet Union by a Polish journalist during the Second World War. This young Pole, going along for the ride with a Polish political delegation to Moscow in 1941 is the most neutral, unbiased account of wartime Russia under Stalin that you will ever read. Neither blatantly pro- nor anti-communism, it's a real treat. 189 pp. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board from the previous owner. No edition stated. Publication of 189 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. Steiner-Prag, Hugo (illustrator). First English Edition. Page edges and endpapers darkened. Interior is clean and unmarked.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 189pp, page edges browned, text clean and sound, panels of wrapper pasted in on endpapers, printed cloth, some soiling on covers, Good / no dustwrapper.

Good cream cloth hardcover with good dustjacket. Stamps on title page189p.

Condition: New. KlappentextRUSSIAN YEAR CONTEXTS 1. THE CITY OF ARCHANGELS 1 1 2. ABOVE RUSSIA 17 3. FIRST DAY IN MOSCOW 26 4. RETURNED TO LIFE 44 5. MUSCOVITE AUTUMN 53 6. WE LEFT MOSCOW 62 7. THE CITY OF KUIBYSHEV 74 8. IN THE STEPPES OF THE HEART OF .

Beige Cloth. Condition: Good (contents Very Good). No Jacket. This is the first edition. Slightly stained grubby outer cover binding. Free endpaper has mild browned edges to it. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Ex Library Marks Etc. Hardback Ex Library Stamps.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original stone cloth covers, deep maroon lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' 189 pp. Small white spots to the front cover and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. chips, tears and edge wear to jacket, age discoloration to end papers along hinges from binder's glue, former owner's name, otherwise clean and sound, octavo, 191 pages.

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Hardback. The Notebook of an Amateur Diplomat. 189pp NY 1944. *By a press attache who served in Moscow with the Polish Embassy after relations between Poland and the Soviets were resumed in 1941. Very good in dust jacket.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - RUSSIAN YEAR CONTEXTS 1. THE CITY OF ARCHANGELS 1 1 2. ABOVE RUSSIA 17 3. FIRST DAY IN MOSCOW 26 4. RETURNED TO LIFE 44 5. MUSCOVITE AUTUMN 53 6. WE LEFT MOSCOW 62 7. THE CITY OF KUIBYSHEV 74 8. IN THE STEPPES OF THE HEART OF RUSSIA SO 9. WHICH OF THE THREE HORSES 0g 10. GENERAL SIKORSKI IN RUSSIA 102 11. NIGHT AT THE KREMLIN 104 12. THE WINTER AND THE ARMY 124 13. FOUR RUSSIAN PORTRAITS 1S3 14. WHY THEY CANNOT WIN 160 15. THE STEPPES ON THE MARCH 169 16. TO STALINGRAD BY THE VOLGA 174 13 O RUSSIAN YEAR Introduction WOULD you like to go with me to Moscow 9 asked Professor Kot, formerly of Cracow University, a member of the Polish government in London and then the newly appointed Polish Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. I would love it, I replied, but I am no diplomat. The Professor smiled. Do you really think that professional diplomats are quite indispensable in a place where there are many things to be put right No, I dont. Neither do I, he said, and besides I am no more a professional diplomat than you are. I will remain a his torian and you a journalist. I will study Russia and so will you, in your own way. We may be able to do some work together. That is how it all started. 1 . The City of Archangels MANY writers open their books about Russia with de tailed accounts of their entry into that country. The readers of all the books about the U. S. S. R. published in the years 19201937 probably know by heart every corner of the frontier station of Niegoreloje, with its huge transparency appealing to the proletarians of all coun tries to unite, its bar with Russian vodka and the soldiers in dark, tall helmets with a red star. The small station on the Polish-Russian frontier was for twenty years the most popular doorway to the Unknown Country. Today it no longer exists. Both Polish and Russian frontier barriers were crushed by the German panzers. All those who re member Niegoreloje realise today how insignificant was that small town lost in the immense European plain stretching from the Rhine to the Urals. Niegoreloje was an accidental frontier station, like hundreds of others. Archangel is today something quite different, a real doorway to Russia. You dont need communist slogans, Red soldiers or vodka to help you to realise that you have entered an entirely different, peculiar country. A sea voyage is the right introduction for visiting a new country. An overland journey helps to blur the dividing line between countries and provides a more or less gradual transition from one country to the next. A sea-crossing 12 RUSSIAH YEAR enhances the difference and brings out the full force of contrast. Liverpool in August, 1941, was Englands fare well. An old, dark harbour. Docks, ships, shipyards. Smashed houses recalling two years of war. Then the sea. Three weeks at sea a good prelude for a visit to-Russia. The grey, monotonous North Sea, bleak and expression less. Heavy fog and low clouds. The fog and clouds grew thicker as we sailed northwards to Russia. It seemed as though the Arctic mist was helping to cloak that country of mystery in a fog which grew more opaque as we approached our destination. I have never seen a sea like it. Our convoy of forty ships, including thirteen war ships and two aircraft carriers, sailed through the fogs, like a fleet of caravels of the Middle Ages, carrying dis coverers in search of new sea lanes, truths or lands. ARCHANGEL , For a whole day before reaching Archangel we ploughed our way through milky f og s thick as cotton wooL The German reconnaissance aeroplane, which had spotted us on the previous day, could not hope to. find us again. We were as safe under the screen of fog as we would have been under the best air umbrella ever made iGtood Russian fog In the evening we noticed lights twinkling in the distance very dimly i and unsteadily. . It was , the abuDTty butbn the fallowing day we could not trace it again for the Russian coast was swathed onto more in, impene trable mist. J .

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Russian Year - The Notebook Of An Amateur Diplomat | Xavier Pruszynski | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007 | Lammers Press | EAN 9781406768176 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.