The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy 9780825307546, 9780825308253, 0825307546

In a distant war, in a city under siege, U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney faced a terrible choice: abandon the mission or

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The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy
9780825307546, 9780825308253, 0825307546

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they

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Scandalous divorcée. Nazi sympathizer. Style icon. Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor. Such are the many—and many times qu

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Robert Keeley was a Foreign Service officer stationed in Greece during one of the most tumultuous events in the country’

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Concentrating on the political rather than the military aspects of the Russo-Japanese War, Professor White describes the

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A prince in one of Russia's most exalted noble families, Grigorii N. Trubetskoi was a unique and contradictory figu

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The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Co

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This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Arm

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The New York Times said of Józef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the West

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