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112 COLD WAR • SPACEFLIGHT ISBN 978-0-7643-7084-7 ISBN: 978-0-7643-7084-7 $59 99, £54 99, 85 00 CAD hardcover • 368 pp • 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) 820 color and b/w photos AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2026 Apollo 8 in Photographs The Apollo Photo Archive By J. L. Pickering & John Bisney, with Ed Hengeveld The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published. The series continues with the Apollo 8 launch in December 1968. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders achieved several historic firsts on this flight. Apollo 8 was the first manned flight to escape Earth’s gravity, and the first to orbit another celestial body (the moon). Launched by the Saturn V rocket, the crew of Apollo 8 reached 24,593 mph, setting both manned speed and distance-from-Earth records. The Apollo Photo Archive features images of spacecraft and rocket assembly, crew selection and training, preflight activities, mission countdown, launch, the flight itself, splashdown, and subsequent crew appearances and related activities. This particular volume includes more than 800 images. ISBN: 978-0-7643-7079-3 $39 99, £36 99, 56 99 CAD hardcover • 416 pp • 6" x 9" (152 x 229 mm) 80 b/w photos AVAILABLE MAY 2026 Spies in Saigon CIA Covert Operations in French Indochina and South Vietnam, 1950–1963 By James P. Bevill ISBN 978-0-7643-7079-3 America’s involvement in Vietnam began in the early 1950s. Using personal stories, eyewitness accounts, and recently declassified CIA reports from the field, author James P. Bevill describes the agency's clandestine efforts to block Vietnamese independence, then help create the Republic of South Vietnam. Key among these primary sources are the CIA files of Paul L. Springer. Springer arrived in Saigon in May 1950. In 1951 he was named the CIA’s first chief of station in Indochina. In this role, during the French war against Ho Chi Minh and the China-backed Viet Minh revolutionary movement, he built the foundations of the American espionage network in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Following the 2019 conclusion of a successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the records of Paul Springer’s CIA files, the CIA information review officer argued that “plaintiff ’s FOIA request could reasonably be expected to cause damage to national security by disclosing intelligence activities, sources, and methods.” Lost in this argument is that all the intelligence records related to Paul Springer’s service as chief of station were over 55 years old. The countries they pertained to no longer existed, and any of their perceived adversaries had long since died. J. L. Pickering, who has amassed the world's largest private archive of US human space flight images, has been conducting historical photo research on the US space program for nearly 50 years. This includes assembling, studying, and organizing a personal collection of more than 250,000 prints, transparencies, and digital files. Today he serves as a resource for authors, museums, astronauts, and others. He lives in Illinois. John Bisney is an author, journalist, and retired network news correspondent who covered the space program for more than 30 years for CNN, the Discovery Science Channel, RKO, and SiriusXM Radio. He witnessed more than 60 space shuttle launches and was one of the few broadcasters at the 1986 Challenger disaster. He holds a master of arts degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He lives in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area. James P. Bevill is an independent historian and award-winning author. His love of history inspired him to read, organize, and catalog the voluminous papers of his wife Jodie’s father, Paul Springer, who taught at Yale-in-China in 1941–42 before joining the US State Department in Chungking. This research resulted in Blackboards and Bomb Shelters: The Perilous Journey of Americans in China during World War II (Schiffer, 2021). Spies in Saigon picks up Springer's story in the postwar period. He lives in Houston.