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  • The Zhivago Affair

    The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

    by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...
    Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak’s first ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Driven to Build, Guided by Values

    Leading for Long-Term Success in the For-Profit and Nonprofit Worlds

    by Peter Finn ...
    Peter Finn was always a little different. As a high school senior, he became an ethical vegetarian, took up meditation, and immersed himself in Eastern religions; later, as a long-haired student at Brown University, he fell for a beautiful classmate named Sarah, and the two began dreaming of creating an organic, green-energy farm. Then, as a rising executive in his family's public relations ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Guest of the Reich

    The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Peter Finn ...
    A Guest of the Reich is the incredible true story of Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre, an American heiress taken prisoner by the Nazis. Born into a wealthy family, Legendre lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, she joined the OSS—the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA—and headed to Europe. In 1944, while on leave, Legendre accidentally crossed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Official Record

    Oversight, national security and democracy

    Edited by Peter Finn, Robert Ledger ...
    The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. Those seeking greater openness and (democratic) accountability argue 'sunlight is [...] the best of disinfectants’, while others seek stricter information control because, to their mind, sound government arises when advice and policy are formulated secretly. This edited volume explores the intersection of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Herbert Corey’s Great War

    A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All

    Edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, Peter Finn ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts. He also reported from Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and Serbia. When the Armistice was signed in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Zhivago Affair

    The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

    by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in ... Read more

    $24.47 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Guest of the Reich

    The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Peter Finn ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    A Washington Post Best Book of the YearThe dramatic story of a South Carolina heiress who joined the OSS and became the first American woman in uniform taken prisoner on the Western front—until her escape from Nazi Germany.Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was a big-game hunter from a wealthy industrial family who lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. Her adventurous spirit made her the inspiration ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook