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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 506 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him.
"A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 243 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly sheds light on the ideas that have shaped Israelis' thinking on both sides of the debate, and among secular and religious Jews about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contrary to opinions that dominate the...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nuanced history of the doomed diplomatic mission that turned the tides of the Chinese Civil War. Following the phenomenal success of General George C. Marshall's leadership of the American army during World War II, he was the standout candidate for a vital international mission: brokering a coalition government between China's warring Nationalists and Communists. Marshall went overseas as a U.S. "special representative" and began enacting miraculous...
Author
Series
FDR at War volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War. Wolfe examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 539 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1000 Years for Revenge is a groundbreaking investigative work that uncovers startling evidence of how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989. Award-winning journalist Peter Lance explains how an elusive al Qaeda mastermind defeated the entire American security system in what the author calls "the greatest failure of intelligence since the Trojan Horse." Threading the stories of FBI agent Nancy...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
American Ally is the definitive account of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for the United States in the War on Terror. Drawing on his exclusive access to the key players at the White House and Downing Street, Con Coughlin explains what led Blair to risk his political career for a cause that he truly believed in. Just as Bob Woodward called on insiders to analyze George W. Bush in Bush at War, Coughlin now calls on his own experience and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing anecdotes from, politicians, friends, adversaries, and colleagues, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Senators Leahy, Mikulski, Kerrey, Helms, Reid, and Rockefeller, and House Minority...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors"--
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xx, 380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steven Mosher exposes the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon-and the roots of China's will to domination in its five-thousand-year history of ruthless conquest and assimilation of other nations, brutal repression of its own people, and belligerence toward any civilization that challenges its claim to superiority."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Fortunes of War, acclaimed historian Neill Lochery reveals the secret history of Brazil's involvement in World War II, showing how the cunning politicians who ran the country extracted enormous wealth from both the Axis and the Allies, fundamentally transforming Brazil's economy and infrastructure during and after the war. Brazil's simplistic reputation as a faraway land of palm trees and samba dancers masked the country's immense strategic...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 444 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times. In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brotherhood president. The 2013 military coup replaced him with a vigorous strongman, Abdel Fattah...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability, South Korea is a rising middle power and faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. Snyder examines fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and recommends balancing autonomy with a robust alliance with the United States.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains America's vital role in achieving global stability, addressing four major areas of concern while outlining recommendations for a long-term plan to help America to reclaim and maintain global power and support.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 269 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq. A shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad, and a vividly rendered tale of ineptitude and corruption
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld"--
On September 17, 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld boarded a Douglas DC6 propeller plane in Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo. Hours later, he would be found dead in an African jungle with an ace of spades...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II"--
"A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II. On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world-running local government, directing drone strikes, nation-building, and risking their lives on the front lines.
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...
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