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Inside Russia: Zoya Zarubina
by Inez Cope Jeffery
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1571683097
- ISBN 13
- 9781571683090
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Eakin Press. Austin,TX. 1999. Bright blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Assumed First Edition, first printing with no subsequent printing shown on copyright page. Flyleaf shows Discard and The Senior Center stamps. Upper right front board has been bumped. Inscribed by the former Soviet Intelligence Officer and the novel's protagonist (Zoya Zarubina, 1920-2009) on the flyleaf. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with wrinkling to several edges. Jacket shows no price and is protected with removable mylar cover. Zoya Zarubina is a name perhaps lost to history yet played a part in numerous historical events: in her mid twenties she became a member of the KGB who later went on to become an interpreter for Joseph Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Tehran and Yalta conferences. She later worked at the Potsdam Conferences and Nuremberg Trials and still later, translated the atomic secrets stolen from the United States. She has served as the Dean of the English Language Department at the Foreign Language Univsersity in Moscow and taught for twenty-five years at the Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. 6x9.25 in. including Index, 173 pg.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 249
- Title
- Inside Russia: Zoya Zarubina
- Author
- Inez Cope Jeffery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 1571683097
- ISBN 13
- 9781571683090
- Publisher
- Eakin Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin, Texas
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 173
- Size
- octavo
- Keywords
- Russia, Intelligence Officer, Stalin
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