Beaten brass, heart-shaped ashtray from Siberia, brass motto banner in Russian fastened to top by copper rivets, triangular sheet of brass, heart-shaped depression in middle and 2 grooves to hold cigarettes at sides, dented texture all over from beating.
Beaten brass, heart-shaped ashtray from Siberia, brass motto banner in Russian fastened to top by copper rivets, triangular sheet of brass, heart-shaped depression in middle and 2 grooves to hold cigarettes at sides, dented texture all over from beating.
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Mission to Moscow : A record of confidential dispatches to the State department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October, 1941.
“Mission to Moscow is a report to the American people on the facts which enabled Mr. Davies to predict the Nazis-Soviet Pact, the outbreak of the war, the German attack on Russia, and the amazing resistance of the Red Army. In addition to telling a new story for the first time, Mission to Moscow tells this story in a new way. The book is made up entirely of confidential dispatches to the State Department, selections from diary and journal entries, and correspondence both official and personal.”
Contents
Foreword (pg. xi)
Author's note (pg. xxi)
I : The mission begins : November 16, 1936 - March 30, 1937 (pg. 1)
II : Washington and points East : April 5 - June 20, 1937 (pg. 137)
III: The purge hits the red army : June 25 - July 28, 1937 (pg. 155)
IV: Russia through her neighbours' eyes : July 28 - December 24, 1937 (pg. 205)
V: The purge hits Bukharin : January 15 - March 17, 1938 (pg. 281)
VI: Moscow hears the drums of war : March 14 - April 1, 1928 (pg. 281)
VII: Climax of the mission : April 6 - July 5, 1938 (pg. 311)
VIII: Brief on the facts : June 6, 1938 (pg. 375)
Harvest of the mission : September 6, 1938 - October 28, 1941 (pg. 427)
Chronology (pg. 515)
Appendix (pg. 535)
Index (pg. 647)
Notes
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Siberian box, hand-carved for Ulysse LaCasse,lid carved in relief of flower branches, "Vladivostok/Siberia 1918-1919./U. LaCasse" against textured background, rectangular box with flat ends and rounded sides like a flattened cylinder, carved of solid piece of wood, lid hinged with small metal pins …
Siberian box, hand-carved for Ulysse LaCasse,lid carved in relief of flower branches, "Vladivostok/Siberia 1918-1919./U. LaCasse" against textured background, rectangular box with flat ends and rounded sides like a flattened cylinder, carved of solid piece of wood, lid hinged with small metal pins each side, interior of lid carved with curling hunting horn and "260" carved below it.