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■ Current: Two books coming up on the Pueblo: Trevor Armbrister’s The Pueblo Affair is supposed to have all the facts (Coward, February, $6.95); The Pueblo Incident by Admiral Daniel V. Gallery offers some angry conclusions (Doubleday, January, $5.95). … In other seas: William J. Lederer’s favorite of his own books, All the Ship’s at Sea, about his life in the Navy, is being reissued (Norton, January, $5.95). . . . In Great Sailing Ships, Otmar Schauffelen offers words and pictures of 140, dating as far back as 1628, all still afloat (Praeger, $12.50). . . . Count von Luckner, the World War I U-Boat commander who sank ships and then rescued the victims, is limned by Edwin P. Hoyt in Knights of the Sea (McKay, $5.95). . . . There’s billions in treasure down there; read about it in Peter Throckmorton’s Shipwrecks and Archaeology: The Unharvested Sea (Little, $6.95).

■ Bad Guys: Stalinism then gets exposed in The Trial of Bukharin, by George Katov (Stein & Day, $7.95); Stalinism now, in Pavel Litvinov’s The Demonstration in Pushkin Square, about Russian intellectuals who were tried for demonstrating (Gambit, $4.95). . . . They were always imperialists: Virginia Cowles tells all about intrigues in the Balkans 1850-1914 in The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars (Harper, January, $7.95). . . . The SS wasn’t a monolithically run terror machine; it was even worse, says Heinz Höhne in The Order of the Death’s Head (Coward-McCann, January, $12.50). . . . You loved him in Asian Drama; now Gunnar Myrdal tells just exactly what we have to do in The Challenge of World Poverty (Pantheon, January).

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■ Current: Two books coming up on the Pueblo: Trevor Armbrister’s The Pueblo Affair is supposed to have all the facts (Coward, February, $6.95); The Pueblo Incident by Admiral Daniel V. Gallery offers some angry conclusions (Doubleday, January, $5.95). … In other seas: William J. Lederer’s favorite of his own books, All the Ship’s at Sea, about his life in the Navy, is being reissued (Norton, January, $5.95). . . . In Great Sailing Ships, Otmar Schauffelen offers words and pictures of 140, dating as far back as 1628, all still afloat (Praeger, $12.50). . . . Count von Luckner, the World War I U-Boat commander who sank ships and then rescued the victims, is limned by Edwin P. Hoyt in Knights of the Sea (McKay, $5.95). . . . There’s billions in treasure down there; read about it in Peter Throckmorton’s Shipwrecks and Archaeology: The Unharvested Sea (Little, $6.95).

■ Bad Guys: Stalinism then gets exposed in The Trial of Bukharin, by George Katov (Stein & Day, $7.95); Stalinism now, in Pavel Litvinov’s The Demonstration in Pushkin Square, about Russian intellectuals who were tried for demonstrating (Gambit, $4.95). . . . They were always imperialists: Virginia Cowles tells all about intrigues in the Balkans 1850-1914 in The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars (Harper, January, $7.95). . . . The SS wasn’t a monolithically run terror machine; it was even worse, says Heinz Höhne in The Order of the Death’s Head (Coward-McCann, January, $12.50). . . . You loved him in Asian Drama; now Gunnar Myrdal tells just exactly what we have to do in The Challenge of World Poverty (Pantheon, January).