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Kennan, George F. FROM PRAGUE AFTER MUNICH Diplomatic Papers 1938-1940 Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press 1968 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket 8vo; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine in a dust jacket which is clean, bright and essentially unworn, but shows a faint damp wrinkle to a small portion of the rear panel (not affecting the volume or the binding in any way) . Kennan was sent by the State Department to Prague as Secretary of the U. S. Legation, leaving Paris on the day of the Munich Conference (on a plane which turned out to be the last to leave Paris for Prague for the next seven years) . In this post, the author had a close view of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the events leading up to the second Worlld War.; First Printing Price: 19.95 USD
Kennan, George F. RUSSIA AND THE WEST UNDER LENIN AND STALIN London Hutchinson 1961 1st British Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket 8vo; viii & 411 pages; London: Hutchinson, (1961) . Publisher's black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine within a red panel, top edges stained red, pale grey endpapers. The major book by George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) -- American advisor, diplomat, political analyst, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. Kennan wrote the famous "Long Telegram" to the Secretary of State from Moscow in 1946, and his subsequent 1947 article "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" argued that the Soviet regime was inherently expansionis t and that its influence had to be "contained" in areas of vital strategic importance to the United States. These texts quickly emerged as foundation documents of the Cold War. A clean, tight copy of the first British edition -- published the year after the Boston: Little, Brown edition (and physically, this London edition is a much nicer book) . The book is fine, the dust jacket is not clipped, and shows only a bit of shelfwear at the spine ends and two faint, diffuse spots on the rear panel. Price: 24.95 USD
