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London: Tom Stacey Ltd, 1971. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Signed. D/J has light rubbing to top edge with two small closed tears, crease to bottom edge of front D/J with inch long closed tear. Inscribed 'To Madame tussaud's - With Best Recollections Author L. Vladimirov 1971'. Paper band included however it is torn in two.
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- Title Russian Space Bluff
- Author Vladimirov, Leonid
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Imprint unknown, London
- Date 1971
- ISBN 9780854680238
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The Russian Space Bluff: The Inside Story of the Soviet Drive to the Moon and Beyond
by Leonid Vladimirov; Foreward by Anatoli Fedoseyev
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The Russian Space Bluff
by Vladimirov, Leonid, and Floyd, David (Translator)
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London: Tom Stacey Ltd, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. 192 pages. Illustrations. Maps Index. Ex-library with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory library markings. Preface by Lord St. Oswald. Foreword by Anatoli Fedoseyev. Part One: The First Sputnik; Part Two: 'Vostok'--the East; Part Three 'Voskhod'--the Rising of the Sun; and Part Four: The Setting of the Sun. Leonid Vladimirov was a department head at a Soviet equivalent of Popular Mechanics magazine, where he introduced his readers to the glory of Soviet science and technology. In 1966, he defected to Great Britain, and since he had no other skills, he began to introduce his readers to the disgrace of Soviet science and technology, in particular space exploration. The R-7 rocket family ("Vostok", "Voskhod", "Soyuz" and so on) is the most mass-produced and the most reliable rocket in the history of space exploration; according to astronautix, by the year 2000 it had been launched over 1628 times, and 97.5% of the…
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