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  • Language: English

    Published by Penton Overseas Inc, 2004

    1741211867 / 9781741211863

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    Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Langley, Bill; Sharp, Chris; McGlothlin, David; Alvord, Robert; McKee, Darren (illustrator). …

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  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Language: English

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

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  • Language: English

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Language: English

    Published by University Press of Kansas, 2012

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    Hardback. Condition: Very Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Language: English

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    Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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    Hardback. Condition: Very Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Language: English

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb?its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call?even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN?the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets?has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century?s greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission?s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship?s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the ?ocean mining? cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA?s Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN?s program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the ?grunt lift? recovery concept; and Oscar ?Ott? Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp?s chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Language: English

    Published by University Press of Kansas (edition First Edition), 2012

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

  • Published by Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, 1953

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    Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Digest format. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones; interiors by: Robert Gibson Jones; H. W. McCauley; Bill Terry; and Henry Sharp. This issue contains: The People Who Make Other Worlds by David V. Reed; Myshkin by David V. Reed; New Moon by Raymond A. Palmer writing as R. A. Palmer; Dinosaur Day by T. P. Caravan; and Question Please! by Frank Patton; along with the usual features Size: 12mo. Robert Gibson Jones; H. W. McCauley; Bill Terry; Henry Sharp; (illustrator). Book. …

  • Published by Ultimate Publishing, New York, 1967

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    Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Light but general wear. Cover art by Frank R. Paul; interiors by: Gray Morrow; Gambee; Lee Morey; Louis Priscilla; Frosty; and Henry Sharp. This issue contains: The Longest Voyage, a novelette by Richard C. Meredith; The Ivy War, a short story by David H. Keller; Beware the Fury, a novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; No Charge for Alterations, a novelette by H. L. Gold; The Green Splotches - a novella by T. S. Stribling; and Same Autumn in a Different Park - a short story by Peter Tate. Size: 12mo. Frank R. Paul; Gray Morrow; Gambee; Lee Morey; Louis Priscilla; Frosty; Henry Sharp; (illustrator). Book.…

  • Language: English

    Published by University Press of Kansas April 2012, 2012

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    Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **CONTENTS(1) A Day of Encounters by Anthony Gilbert (2) A Time To Remember by James Reach (3) One Clear Sweet Clue by William Bankier (4) The Theft of Nothing at All by Edward D. Hoch (5) The Day of The Bullet by Stanley Ellin (6) The Perfect Model by Margery Sharp (7) The Man Who Liked Noise by Ernest Savage (8) Time Out Of Mind by Peter Godfrey (9) The Other Shoe by Charlotte Armstrong (10) Report on a Broken Bridge by Dennis ONeil (11) Spring Fever by Dorothy Salisbury Davis (12) A Hell of a Story by H. R. F. Keating (13) Traveling Light by W. R. Burnett (14) The Sisterhood by Gwendoline Butler (15) Girl In Danger by Thomas Walsh (16) No Tomorrows by Florence V. Mayberry (17) The Unstoppable Man by Michael Gilbert (18) Father Crumlish Remembers His Poe by Alice Scanlan Reach (19) The Marked Man by Ursula Curtiss (20) The Forgotten Witness by Melville Davisson Post (21) Cold Money by Ellery Queen (22) Knowing What I Know Now by Barry Perowne Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Book.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Yale University Press 2022-10-11, 2022

    185709686X / 9781857096866

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  • Language: English

    Published by University Press of Kansas 4/4/2012, 2012

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    Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub. Book.

  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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    Language: English

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    Paperback. Condition: New. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call-even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN-the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets-has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century's greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission's Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship's logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organised, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the "ocean mining" cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN's program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the "grunt lift" recovery concept; and Oscar "Ott" Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp's chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.…

  • Published by Stellar Publishing Corp., NY, 1930

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    SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Fair to Good-. Vol. 1, No. 12. Bedsheet-sized pulp. Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Cover by Paul for "The City of the Living Dead" by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt. Includes "Gulf Stream Gold" by Ed Earl Repp; "The Infinite Brain" by John C. Campbell; "The Day of the Beast" by D. D. Sharp; "The Evening Star" (pt. 2 of 2) by Dr. David H. Keller; "The Horrible Transformation" by J. Stallworth Daniels; "Science Questions and Answers"; "The Reader Speaks"; "Science News of the Month". Letters from Alan Glasser and others. Illustrated by Paul and Butterfield. Stains; soiling; small losses; rear cover nearly loose; bent from poor stacking; tanning; stamp on front. Book.…

  • Language: English

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    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book is in gently read condition. Navy cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket has small tears at spine.

  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

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  • Language: English

    Published by University Press of Kansas, 2012

    0700619410 / 9780700619412

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