CARTER, DYSON — Russia's Secret Weapon

Winnipeg, Canada: Contemporary Publishers, 1943. 5th Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback resembling a periodical or magazine. The book is in Fair only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The top edge of the front cover has a large chip missing. There is a tear, with noticeable chipping to the top edge of the book's spine. The book is made with fragile, easily damaged paper and has noticeable wear and damage. "Herbert Dyson Carter known as Dyson Carter (February 2, 1910 – 1996) was a Canadian scientist, lecturer, writer, and Communist propagandist and organiser who served as president of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society from 1949 to 1960. During his fifty-year writing career, Carter produced hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, dozens of short stories, and 17 books including five novels. Many of his non-fiction books and articles popularized scientific ideas and discoveries or reported on medical advances. In the 1930s and 1940s, many of his articles appeared in popular magazines in Canada and the United States and three of his books were published by large commercial publishers in the United States and widely reviewed. He occasionally used the pseudonym Warren Desmond for popular fiction that he would otherwise would not have been able to sell in the United States due to McCarthyism.". Fair .