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The "last, best" guidebook
12020-09-02T14:20:50-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5913When journalist Harrison Salisbury first visited the Soviet Union in 1944, he tucked a copy of what he called “the last, best” guidebook into his gas mask bag. It (the book, not the gas mask) had been published in 1914 in Leipzig by the famous Baedeker publishing house.plain2020-09-11T14:43:03-04:002020-09-01T18:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5When journalist Harrison Salisbury first visited the Soviet Union in 1944, he tucked a copy of what he called “the last, best” guidebook into his gas mask bag. It (the book, not the gas mask) had been published, for the first time in English, in 1914 in Leipzig by the famous Baedeker publishing house.
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