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The Eagle and the Small Birds : Crisis in the Soviet Empire, from Yalta to Solidarity
by Charlton, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0563202726
- ISBN 13
- 9780563202721
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About This Item
London, UK: BBC, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 192pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Outer text block edge just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded at edges, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A history of the events in Eastern Europe in the four decades since the Soviet takeover - offering the personal witness of former influential Communists and showing the Polish crisis to have been the latest in a chain that includes the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013215
- Title
- The Eagle and the Small Birds : Crisis in the Soviet Empire, from Yalta to Solidarity
- Author
- Charlton, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0563202726
- ISBN 13
- 9780563202721
- Publisher
- BBC
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Soviet Union
- X weight
- 0 kg
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