About this title: This study of Eisenhower's role as spymaster covers both World War II and his two-term presidency. Ike was responsible for successful and unsuccessful operations--including the use of ULTRA intelligence to foil the German army's counterattacks, and the fiasco involving Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 flights over the Soviet Union. Eisenhower made ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Date Published: 1999-11-01
ISBN-13:9781578062072ISBN:1578062071
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Light edge or corner wear. Ex-library book with usual markings or attachments. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY mail for even faster delivery! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. :
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781578062072ISBN:1578062071
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. A very good plus copy in pictorial wraps with some shelf wear and small amount of creasing to covers; no printing stated, ; 8vo., 368 pages., read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. University Press of Mississippi, 1999. Fine Book. Overall, a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. Book Seller # MBRA414, 6.25 inches by 9.5 inches, 368 pages. Stated "First Edition". The dust jacket is not price clipped but it is badly worn along the folds and edges where there are numerous chips and tears, the worst being one inch tears at the bottom of the fold for the front flap and at the base of the spine. Minor fading and wear only to the book itself. The hinges and binding are good and the interior is clean. NOT an Ex-Library copy. Includes both WWII and ... read more
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: c1981
Description: Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. Several b/w photos, indexed, a tight, solid copy, in dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Date Published: 1999-11-01
ISBN-13:9781578062072ISBN:1578062071
Description: Good. Mild shelf and corner wear; Slight soiling to page edges; Mild rubbing and wear to covers and spine; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Description: Good. Hard cover book without dust jacket. Pages clean and tight. No writing or stamps. Stated First Edition. Light shelf wear and use. Non smoking storage. (ISBN: 0-38514-4438 ) read more
Binding: First
Publisher: University Press of MS, Jackson, MS
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781578062072ISBN:1578062071
Description: Good. 368, wraps, illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Introduction by Douglas Brinkley. An account of the transformation of the wartime OSS into the CIA, and of the rapid growth of America's intelligence community during the Cold War. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781578062072ISBN:1578062071
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "Here, Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike's biographer and one of America's most acclaimed historians, details Eisenhower's goal of keeping the Free World free. To do so, as Ambrose shows, Ike fostered the growth of the CIA, overthrew governments, sponsored spy flights, and hatched assassination plots. At the top of the intelligence pyramid Ike was responsible for some of the greatest coups in espionage history-and some of its most ignominious failures. " This book ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385144933ISBN:0385144938
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 32 pp. photographs. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First edition. A dramatic and comprehensive account of the ways in which President Dwight S. Eisenhower (1890-1969) utilized the intelligence network during World War II when he was the Supreme Allied Military Commander, and the two terms of his presidency (1953-61). Ambrose (1936-2002) became intimately acquainted with Eisenhower during the 1960s when he was invited by the former president to edit ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385144933ISBN:0385144938
Description: very good, fair to good. 368, illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ edges worn: small tears, small chips. An account of the transformation of the wartime OSS into the CIA, and of the rapid growth of America's intelligence community during the Cold War. read more
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