Close Contact: With the Soviets in Eastern Germany
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. Second Impression. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards with black spine lettering. Bw photographic dj with orange/white spine lettering. 173 pp. with 5 bw glossy photos. VG+ interior, clean and tight. / Good+ with light chipping to corners and tape repairs to top/bottom of spine; else clean, tight, unmarked and sound. Price clipped. Item #146687
Written by the former Chief of the British Mission to the Soviet Forces in Eastern Germany, stationed in Potsdam. Dewhurst writes about "the Russian fears of insecurity and our own casualness concerning matters of high security importance," about propaganda on both sides (or lack of it), theories on Stalin's strange death, and more. An insider's view, written in the midst of the Cold War.
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