Author: CHARLTON,MICHAEL
Title: The Eagle and the Small Birds: Crisis in the Soviet Empire from Yalta to Solidarity
Description: London: BBC, 1984. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has one owner's name to the ffep that of 'Keith Kyle' he has also annotated the book on the Title page and to the rear endpaper.He may well have reviewed the book for the Economist magazine.Clean copy internally.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.This copy was acquired from the Private Library of Professor Keith Kyle and he would have been sent this title for review possibly for the Economist Magazine.Kyle was a gifted journalist and historian best known for his absorbing dispatches for the Tonight programme and as the Author of Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East (1991), the definitive book on the Suez crisis.He worked for the BBC for Many Years and produced many articles and book reviews for the Economist.Kyle was The Washington Correspondent for the Economist and served in that position from 1953 to 1958, covering the emerging civil rights struggle in the south and the infamous McCarthy hearings. He got to know such diverse leaders as Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon,and John F Kennedy.8vo,192pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 6¾" - 9¾" Tall. Very Good .

Keywords: Politics Russia


See more books from our catalog: History