Max Gissen Time Reading Program Editor (3 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Archival Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Light brown (acidic paper reaction) & soiling upper text block. First published 1949; this is the 1964 Special Edition of the Time Reading Program. Laid-in: publisher's bookmark. Memoir of early career days of Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911 - 1996) while w/the British diplomatic corps in Russia. An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour & surprising incidents of a junior diplomat in Moscow. Account of travels in the USSR, particularly to forbidden zones of Central Asia; exploits in the British Army & SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and time spent in Yugoslavia with Josip Broz Tito & the Partisans. 561 pgs w/archival photos, 37 chapters divided in 3 parts: 1, Golden Road; 2, Orient Sand; and 3, Balkan War. Later in his career, Sir Fitzroy was a Parliament member, and served as Under-Secretary for War to both the Churchill and the Eden governments. The American edition, published a year later in 1950, was titled Escape To Adventure. Small wonder Sir Fitzroy is thought by many to be upon whom Ian Fleming's James Bond is based.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Time Reading Program, 1964 SPECIAL EDITION w/ publisher's bookmark laid-in. Softcover/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Light brown (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. Frontispiece: Edward Winslow portrait of 1651. First published 1945. Scholarly historical narrative by George Findley Willison (1896-1972), writer & editor who specialized in American history. Its lengthy full title --- Saints and Strangers - Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & Their Families, with Their Friends & Foes: & and Account of Their Posthumous Wanderings in Limbo, Their Final Resurrection & Rise to Glory, & the Strange Pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock --- well describes the contents of the volume. 565 pgs, w/maps to front & rear, in 24 chapters followed by 2 appendices.