Robert Conquest Foreword (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Little Brown & Company, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clipped, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxiii + 509 pages. This secret policeman's memoir contains explosive material. The atomic bomb secrets were betrayed not by the Rosenbergs but by none other than Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi. The motivations of octogenarian Sudoplatov, who managed the Soviet nuclear intelligence effort, in choosing to divulge this information now are less important than the news about the services he performed for Stalin and the damage he inflicted on the West. A skilled operative and admitted murderer--whose assassination in 1938 of a Ukrainian nationalist was rewarded by Stalin with his personal summons and then his direct order to liquidate Trotsky--Sudoplatov coldly records killing as a method of rule. The Kremlin intrigues he details will inspire major historical revision, damning, particularly, Khrushchev and, yet again, Beria. Sudoplatov's insights into the Kremlin's intrigues of the 1940s and 1950s, combined with the inevitable reappraisal of the Oppenheimer cause celebre, are astonishing evidence of secret influences in the domestic politics of both the U.S. and the USSR.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. About new book, unmarked, in barely rubbed card covers. 577 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Books sent promptly by first class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inside front flap is clipped, some rubbing wear on DJ back cover, very small and minor scratches on DJ back over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor discoloration to pages. DJ is covered with Mylar sheet. Minor wear along the DJ edges and tips. Slight wear along the edges of the book itself. Signed by Author(s).