Wise, David and Ross, Thomas B (46 results)

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Good. 308 p.; 22 cm. there is a small tear in the front cover at the edge about 1/2 inch and it also tore the first 5 pages pages a little, there is a crease in the rear cover at the bottom corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Book Club. Black Cloth Covers with Red and Silver Lettering to Spine and title of book blind-stamped over entire front cover; Red Endpapers; Top Book Edge is stained red by publisher; right book edge is rough--cut; Book Interior is clean and tight and unmarked; 8vo; 308 pages; indexed; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and fairly bright; upper edge near right corner shows some fading of red lettering; spine is sunned; inside front flap of dustjacket has a small bookstore sticker at lower right corner;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black boards, pristine, bright and sharp. Very Good +. Protected dustjacket, general age toning, nicks and chips to edges. Good. Book is firm in binding, 308 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. All about the shooting down of poor Gary Powers. A lamb led to slaughter. Lurid expose style.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. 22 cm. Subject: Espionage. 3 Kg.

hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. 308pp. BCE from front flap: "The Espionage Establishment describes in unprecedented detail--much of it secret until now--the espionage operations and organizations of the major powers, focusing on the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Communist China and the United States." #04547. Very Good: Book VG+ touch of shelf wear else clean, square, tight, unmarked Very Good: DJ VG- spine sunned, mild edge wear, toning around edges. not clipped.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Bantam NY 1962 Reprint 186pp "story behind the most explosive espionage case of the 20th century a startling book which describes in detail the development and use of the secret U-2 airplane the crash, capture and trial of US pilot Francis Gary Powers and the incredible chain of decisions made in Washington leading to the ill-fated summit conference." Very good with wear and rubbing to covers and spine. Readers creases. See photos sr 1/3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair jacket. Very good in fair dust jacket. DJ folded and torn. Pages slightly yellowed. May have inscription on flyleaf/pastedown. 269 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Bantam H2476. 1st printing, November 1962. Crease front cover, otherwise G-VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with browning to spine and edges of covers, chips, dime-sized, round, black sticker covering price on front interior dustjacket flap, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. 22 cm. Subject: Espionage. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear, toning to spine and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with mylar. Slight nicks/tears along dust jacket edges. First Edition - first printing. 308 pages with index. LCCN 67-22644.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, fading and shelf wear, small tear at top front edge.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). First. 308 pages. 8vo, black blind-stamped cloth, edgeworn d.w. New York: Random House, (1967). First edition. Outer edges toned, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition [presumed]/1st printing [stated]. Ex-library. DJ in mylar, taped to boards: light edge wear. Lightly toned with ae/use. Deckled pages. Else, tight and square. B&W photos within. NF-MILTHX/AMERHX/ESPIONAGE/AVIATION.

paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Bantam Books, 1968. 12mo. Paperback. Code of N3894 on cover and spine. Book is very good. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. 5th Printing. Several creases in cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cloth edges lightly sunned, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with edges lightly age-toned.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 269pp (loc 781).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated first printing. Brief gift inscription (dated 1967) on front paste-down, else about fine in like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has a small pen name and date to the ffep and tiny amounts of foxing to the prelims and page edges. The jacket is price clipped with very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st. Previous owner's name stamped in ink on the front free endpaper. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. [6], 186 pages. Footnotes. Author's Note. The cover has some wear and soiling. Name and address of a previous owner inside the front cover. David Wise (May 10, 1930 October 8, 2018) was an American journalist and author who worked for the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1950s and 1960s, and published a series of non-fiction books on espionage and US politics as well as several spy novels. His book The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power won the George Polk Award and the George Orwell Award. In 1951, Wise joined the New York Herald-Tribune and became the paper's White House correspondent in 1960. He was chief of the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau from 1963 to 1966. He was later a commentator on intelligence issues for CNN for six years. Thomas B. Ross was a journalist and best-selling author of books on military intelligence who later became the spokesman for the Pentagon in the Carter administration. In 1960, when Mr. Ross was the Washington bureau chief for The Chicago Sun-Times, a United States spy plane was shot down over Russian territory. At the time, government officials claimed it was a weather plane, but the Russian government later produced the pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Mr. Ross and David Wise investigated the incident and published ''The U-2 Affair'' in 1962. The book was the first of three the two wrote together. ''The Invisible Government,'' published in 1964 and explained the role of intelligence agencies in diplomacy. Mr. Ross and Mr. Wise explored, in 1967, the intelligence community in ''The Espionage Establishment'' The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 5/1/1960 during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR. At first, the US government denied the plane's purpose & mission, but was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) & surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Coming just over two weeks before the scheduled opening of an East-West summit in Paris, the incident was a great embarrassment to the USA & prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union. On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Powers parachuted to the ground and was captured. Initially, American authorities acknowledged the incident as the loss of a civilian weather research aircraft operated by NASA, but were forced to admit the mission's true purpose a few days later after the Soviet government produced the captured pilot and parts of the U-2's surveillance equipment, including photographs of Soviet military bases. The incident occurred during the tenures of American president Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, around two weeks before the scheduled opening of an eastwest summit in Paris, France. Khrushchev and Eisenhower had met face-to-face at Camp David in Maryland in September 1959, and the seeming thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations had raised hopes globally for a peaceful resolution to the Cold War. The U-2 incident shattered the amiable "Spirit of Camp David" that had prevailed for eight months, prompting the cancellation of the summit in Paris and embarrassing the U.S. on the international stage. The Pakistani government issued a formal apology to the Soviet Union for its role in the mission. Following his capture, Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to three years of imprisonment plus seven years of hard labor; he was released two years later, in February 1962, in a prisoner exchange for Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel. Presumed First Bantam Edition, first printing thus.

Condition: good, fair to good. Book Club Edition. 308, footnotes, index, DJ somewhat soiled and worn: small edge tears/chipsThe espionage operations and organizations of the major powers, focusing on the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Communist China, and the United States.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The U-2 Affair (1963) by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross ? The Cresset Press From Crappy Old Books ? where espionage smells like damp paper and Cold War paranoia. Before Wikileaks, before Snowden, there was the U-2 incident: one spy plane, one shot-down pilot, and one colossal diplomatic facepalm. In The U-2 Affair , investigative journalists David Wise and Thomas B. Ross unravel the tangled mess of espionage, secrecy, and political fallout that followed Gary Powers? dramatic crash-landing into Soviet custody in 1960. It?s all here?cloak-and-dagger missions, CIA blunders, and the chilly chess game of Cold War politics. This 1963 British edition from The Cresset Press is Cold War vintage with the patina to prove it: creased covers, yellowing pages, and a certain musty gravitas. A perfect read for your inner armchair agent. Crappy Old Books ? Because real secrets come with foxed edges and Cold War dust. Good condition with dust jacket. First edition.