B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There are several very small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends. The white covers have some light spots of ground-in dirt. "Rudolf Roessler (Rößler) (November 22, 1897 - December 11, 1958) was a German refugee who had moved to Switzerland in 1933, and was the proprietor of a s... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. There is a red star remainder mark to the top edge of the text block. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and rubbed spots. The spine of the book has noticeable fading and there is tidemarking to the top inside spine of the dust jacket. "To conceal warriors within a hollow horse outside the gates of Troy was, in Homer's time, a most succes... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some beginning bumping, The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips missing, along with some light ground-in dirt and rubbing. "Donald Duart Maclean ( 25 May 1913 ? 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who acted as spies for the Soviet Union. As an undergraduate, Maclean openly proclaimed his left-wing views, and was recruited into the... View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an inked number on the front endpaper along with several light splotches of foxing. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but does have noticeable fading to the spine and spine joints. "The Special Operations Executive, generally known as SOE, was one of the most remarkable creations of the Second World War. In July 1940, Winston Churchill instructed Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, to set Europe... View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a black marker remainder mark on the bottom spine end of the book cover. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In 1916, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, Americans watched from afar, unthreatened by the danger overseas. That all changed on a warm summer evening in late July, when a spit of land in New York Harbor called Black Tom Island exploded, pelting the Stature of Liberty with sh... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has some edge wear, rubbing and nicking, along with several small edge tears. The white portions of the dust jacket have toning / yellowing to edges and spine. "Aleksei Myagkov is running fo his life. Ever shince he defected to the West in 1974, agents of the Soviet secret police ) (K... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally crisp and clean. There are a couple of tiny edge tears to the spine ends. "The Security Service, also known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5) , is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) , Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence... View More...
