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First edition, twelfth printing. Hard cover. Octavo. [xxii] 683pp. Signed gift inscription from author on front free end paper. To Bob Parkin / who is rendering / fine service to/the cause of the / United Nations & to / a durable .? Peace / with the best wishes of / Joseph E. Davies 1/27/1943. Also signed by Robert Parkin on a preliminary page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with a small tear to top edge. Davies was appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union by Franklin D. Roosevelt and served from 1936 to 1938. Davies had been asked by FDR to evaluate the strength of the Soviet Army, its government and its industry and to find out if possible which side the Russians would be on in the ""coming war."" Made into a propaganda movie in 1941 which gave a one-sided view of the Moscow trials, rationalized Moscow's participation in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and its unprovoked invasion of Finland, and portrayed the Soviet Union as a state that was moving towards a democratic model, a Soviet Union committed to internationalism.
