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Barack Obama by David Maraniss
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

In a survey of college admissions officers, Punahou was ranked among the ten best secondary schools in the nation. Mrs. Lucille Finlayson was reminded of that status almost every day ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
epub |eng | 2009-11-23 | Author:James Bradley [BRADLEY, JAMES]

* * * IN 1873, EMULATING COMMODORE PERRY’S mission, Japanese diplomats sailed west in an American-made warship across the Yellow Sea to open uncivilized Korea to Western ways. They brought ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis by Mark Bowden
epub |eng | 2007-03-21 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]

A New and Mutually Beneficial Relationship With a secret process in place to secure the hostages’ release, the Carter White House subtly changed its tone. There was no more talk ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Kissinger

CHAPTER TWENTY Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower In March 1952, before the Korean War had ended, Stalin made a diplomatic overture to settle the Cold War for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
Rise to Globalism by Douglas G. Brinkley
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Douglas G. Brinkley

The most important result of Carter’s growing hostility toward and fear of the Soviets was the demise of SALT II. Carter was unwilling to go more than halfway in meeting ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
The Twilight War by David Crist
epub |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:David Crist [Crist, David]

“Enough of this bullshit,” Dyer said, as he ordered one of the F-14s to close and take care of the problem. The C-130’s pilot evidently decided not to push his ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
Island of Shame by Vine David
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Vine, David

THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM Arriving in Mauritius and the Seychelles, islanders like Rita found themselves in positions vulnerable to ethnic and racial discrimination, as Chagossians and as Afro-Mauritians. Their ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011 by Steve Coll
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-23 | Author:Steve Coll [Coll, Steve]

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
the Biafra Story (1969) by Forsyth Frederick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Forsyth, Frederick [Frederick, Forsyth,]

By the time they had finished the Biafrans had regrouped. Further north Achuzie with his crack 29th Battalion had been off on his own, marching 92 miles and taking from ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jason Stearns

Meanwhile, the Rwandans had taken control of much of the eastern Congo in a matter of hours. While Colonel Kabarebe had been commander of the Congolese army, he had prepositioned ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
A Dirty War by Anna Politkovskaya
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Anna Politkovskaya [Anna Politkovskaya]

20 THE DECISIVE BATTLE 20 March 2000 The fighting around the village of Komsomolskoe in the mountain foothills, now in its second week, will decide the fate not just of ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 26,2014 )
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan by Seth G. Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Seth G. Jones [Jones, Seth G.]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Three-Front War IN LATE 2006 and early 2007, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry conducted a series of briefings on the Afghan insurgency for senior U.S. policymakers, including National ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
A-66-271 by United Nations 2011
epub |eng | | Author:United Nations 2011

( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
China Airborne by James Fallows
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:James Fallows [Fallows, James]

* Just to give a flavor, here is a sample ad I saw on a Western aviation site in 2011: Sichuan Airlines—A320 Captains (UPGRADED Package!)—Now the BEST OPPORTUNITY in China! ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2001-03-22 | Author:John J. Mearsheimer [Mearsheimer, John J.]

BISMARCKIAN PRUSSIA (1862–70) Background Prussia did not become a great power until the mid-eighteenth century, but even then it was probably the weakest European great power until the mid-nineteenth century.42 ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )

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