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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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English
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This book relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444 day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky...
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H. Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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A novel on the Foreign Service featuring Hugh Mathews, a young career diplomat in 1970s war-torn Congo. Disillusioned by the cynicism and ineptitude of his embassy, he occupies himself by having an affair with the consul's wife, taking her on trips in the interior in search of African artifacts.
6) Madagascar
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Publisher
Blank Slate Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life in his haunting and exciting second novel"--Amazon.
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English
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The full scope of George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost 30 years ago; the result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
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English
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"Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Upon his retirement, Secretary John Kerry said Burns belonged...
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Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A Professional Foreigner aims to provide insight into the profession itself, what it was like at a particular period of history to play even a minor role in the steady stream of history, in the more mundane world of daily events, often out of the view of the media and world attention. It portrays a workday American professional diplomat - a Foreign Service officer - what they think and what they do all day"--
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Publisher
New Academia Pub./Vellum
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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This is the story of a woman entering a consular career on her own after the death of her Foreign Service officer husband. She describes the consular world with humor, empathy, and anecdotes. She served for twenty years as a consular officer in four posts, first looking after American hippies in India and after that a huge American business community in Hong Kong. She was principal officer in the Yucatán area of Mexico, then consul general in Bucharest,...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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David Richards is a mid-level diplomate assigned to the middle eastern kingdom of Kutar. For centuries tribal conflict has flared sporadically in the arid hills hundreds of miles from the coastatl capital of Laradan. The residents of Laradan ignore the stories but the Americans decide to do something about it. Urged on by a Kirtzian American military advisroe the little-used Kutaran army marches into the hills and is quickly decimated. Rebel force...
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him best survey his accomplishments as a diplomat, activist, and author. Excerpts from Holbrooke's own writings further illuminate each significant period of his career.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The State Department's heroes are the front-line diplomats who have been unheralded, but crucial in the line of national defense for two decades of wars in the Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who do the hardest things in the hardest places.y --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The annotated diaries of the late influential American diplomat and foreign policy strategist spans ninety years of U.S. history while sharing his insights into Depression-era capitalism, the Cold War, and his literary achievements.
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