SAZAMOV'S MEMOIRS

Dear Sam,

First, you're right. Don't use a reprint
edition for your own effort. Find a good FIRST
EDITION, if you can. Now, then, let me recommend
www.mxbf.com, the world's largest used book site bar
about 20 miles (which has first editions on offer for
Sazonov). They have nearly everything. Speaking of
which, I have another reprinting idea for you of books
written by a former Hollywood star that might interest
you. If you manage to reprint Sazonov and the other
idea that I will give you privately, I will buy copies.


What is your preferred private email address,
or is it the same as the one employed here?

Secondly, don't forget, Sam, I live over here in
Malaysia. There is no hope that I could ever track
down a copy of a Russian foreign minister's memoirs
in this country. Such books do not exist here.

But I do have an idea. For how many days do you
need a copy of the book to complete your work? You
might try going to the New York Public Library and
simply checking out a copy.

Sam: Are you aware that the man who was one of
the world's best-selling authors in the area of
non-fiction during the 1920s and 1930s, who wrote
beautifully, is today virtually totally forgotten, in
a certain sense. One of his works went through
hundreds of printings. I will tell you about the
books privately. A reprint edition of these works
would likely HAVE A MARKET. When I think about this
particular writer, who sold so many books about 80
years ago and who wrote such engaging and energetic
prose, I wonder what is required to stay in memory.

I will toss three other titles at you for your
consideration: Herbert Yardley's "The American Black
Chamber " (nickname for U.S. cryptologic section,
published about 1931) "The Chinese Black Chambe" (he
set up Chiang Kai-shek's intelligence section in the
1930s) and "Education of a Poker Player" (about 1958).
Yardley was possibly the greatest natural cryptologist
who ever lived. He broke the Japanese diplomatic
codes which proved decisive at the Washington Naval
Conference of 1921 -- not to mention solving American
codes as a HOBBY during WWI.

The downside to my suggestion may be that there
are quite a few reprints available of Yardley's work,
if I am not mistaken.

Yardley lost his job when the Black Chamber was
dissolved in 1929 (two days after Black Tuesday) after
Hoover's Sec. of State Henry Stimson famously said,
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail," and then
dissolved our code department.

The American Black Chamber book is famous as
one of the biggest legal releases of classified
information ever. Yardley ended informing at least
17 nations that their codes had been broken!

Yours, Larry Parr





samsloan wrote:
On Apr 21, 7:53 am, wrote:
Hmmm, so Larry would have preferred that Germany won World War I.
Interesting.

Larry Parr has a valid and interesting point. If Germany had won World
War I, Hitler would never have risen to power and World War II might
not have happened.

If all those Americans had not died fighting in France, Sam Sloan
might never have risen to power.

If Queen Victoria had not carried the gene for hemophilia, which she
spread to all the Royal Families of Europe by marrying all her
children into those families, the Royal Families might still rule
Europe.

Anyway, I have just ordered one copy of FATEFUL YEARS 1909-1916 (The
Reminiscences of Serge Sazonov G.C.B., G.C.V.O. Russian Minister for
Foreign Affairs: 1914)

If the book turns out to be in good condition (not fuzzy) I will
reprint it.

Sam Sloan