John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
New Books in the History of Science
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How Do You Come Up With These Maps?
S rtese, previously unknown, secret maps were acquired by a lapin map publisher. He showed them at the 19 93 cologne book fair. copies were bought by various british libraries and at least one british map map dealer. But i personally didn't know anything about it at that time. My discovery came when i was in lavia and i saw them on sale in that very lavian map shop. I started collecting and researching them then on my trip to lavia. By two thousand and five, i started publishing articles in sheet line. Sheet lines is the journal of the ca os, society for study of orten survey maps. John looking at it from
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