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Author | : Dan O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445651653 |
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Tudor court intrigues and England's place on the world stage are revealed through the eyes of Thomas Chaloner, a most reluctant ambassador.
Author | : Christopher Shulgan |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1551992663 |
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Few realize that behind Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War-ending perestroika reforms stood an owlish figure who was just as important as the Soviet leader himself. Fewer still know the role Canada played in transforming Gorbachev’s advisor from a devout Stalinist to the most potent force for democracy and justice ever to walk the halls of the Kremlin. His name was Aleksandr Yakovlev. Today in an increasingly autocratic Russia he’s reviled as the man who brought down the Soviet empire–the "architect" of perestroika and the "godfather" of glasnost, who, some say, was the puppetmaster manipulating Gorbachev’s strings. Yakovlev is acknowledged to have devised the strategy that won Gorbachev the job of Soviet leader. After the Soviet collapse, Yakovlev was the only other man present as Gorbachev negotiated his transfer of power to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. In between, Yakovlev was behind every democratic measure Gorbachev instituted, leading the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick to dub him "Gorbachev’s good angel." His origins were anything but democratic. As a youth, Yakovlev was a faithful Communist who idolized Stalin. By 1970 he had ascended to a position that controlled every media outlet in the Soviet Union, requiring him to plot repressive strategies against such dissidents as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov But then a mis-step caused the Party to banish him from Moscow. A disgraced Yakovlev landed in the Cold War backwater of Ottawa working as the Soviet ambassador to Canada. His career should have been over. But Yakovlev’s diplomatic posting functioned as an education in Western democracy. He grew fascinated with elections, attended trials and became an expert in the machinations of a market economy. He also developed a close friendship with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who helped arrange to bring Mikhail Gorbachev on his first visit to North America. It was in Canada that Gorbachev and Yakovlev struck up their friendship as they strategized for the first time the radical changes known as perestroika. Drawing on interviews with Yakovlev’s family and dozens of his friends, as well as never-before-disclosed archival research material, The Soviet Ambassador recounts Yakovlev’s tortuous evolution from Stalin’s acolyte to Stalinism’s nemesis, from faithful member of the Communist Party to liberal democrat engineering the same Party’s collapse. With profound implications for diplomacy in a conflict-driven age, Yakovlev’s story is also a remarkable testament to the power of conviction, and an inspiring account of an underdog overcoming injustice to improve the lives of his fellow citizens.
Author | : Kee Beng Ooi |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9812304258 |
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A biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman. Includes facts about Malaysian and Singaporean history, as well as insights into the processes of decolonization and nation building.
Author | : Tony Lockwood |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2000-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595096840 |
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(use the description for the back cover) It's only a matter of time beforeThe Reluctant Terrorist becomes a reality! Bakaar, an ex British colony in East Africa is facing starvation and civil war. In a final, desperate attempt to feed his people President Berruda places a bomb, filled with deadly nerve gas VX, in New York City and demands $1 billion to reveal it's location. The U.S. President cannot evacuate New York and risk panic and he cannot give in to blackmail. He plays for time. Maybe Berruda is bluffing! How long can the search remain a secret? With one hour to go to the deadline the bomb is found. But is it too late... AUTHOR BIO: Tony Lockwood was born in the United Kingdon but now lives in Massachusetts. The Reluctant Terrorist is his first novel. He has written a direct several short films and his first feature screenplay is expected to be filmed in the fall of 2000.
Author | : John Kiriakou |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0553907336 |
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Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot. In February 2002 Kiriakou was the head of counterterrorism in Pakistan. Under his command, in a spectacular raid coordinated with Pakistani agents and the CIA’s best intelligence analyst, Kiriakou’s field officers took down the infamous terrorist Abu Zubaydah. For days, Kiriakou became the wounded terrorist’s personal “bodyguard.” In circumstances stranger than fiction, as al-Qaeda agents scoured the streets for their captured leader, the best trauma surgeon in America was flown to Pakistan to make sure that Zubaydah did not die. In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou takes us into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book’s most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it—or could attempt to stop it. Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the truth behind the torture debate, and the incredible dedication of ordinary men and women doing one of the most extraordinary jobs on earth.
Author | : Henry Morgenthau |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814329795 |
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This edition brings back into print the classic memoir by the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who not only documented but also tried to stop the genocide of the Armenian people.
Author | : Mohsin Hamid |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2009-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307373355 |
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From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious, and possibly armed, American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the “valuation” of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with regal Erica promises entrée into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. Elegant and compelling, Mohsin Hamid’s second novel is a devastating exploration of our divided and yet ultimately indivisible world. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America. I noticed that you were looking for something; more than looking, in fact you seemed to be on a mission, and since I am both a native of this city and a speaker of your language, I thought I might offer you my services as a bridge.” —from The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Author | : Askold Melnyczuk |
Publisher | : Pfp Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780983976332 |
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The mother of a childhood friend summons Nick Blud back to his old Ukranian-American New Jersey neighborhood, where something unspeakable has just happened, in this harrowing tale about friendship and love, America, and the immigrant's dream.
Author | : Muzaffar Alam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521780411 |
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A study of Persian travel accounts, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800.
Author | : Billy R. Cooper |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146534585X |
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Many people have asked me over the years how I became a general. My response is usually reluctantly. Never genuinely believed it might be possible. In the first few chapters of this autobiography, Cooper recalls events from his childhood, growing up on the farm with his maternal grandparents. The next chapters follow his high school life, and finally, his entrance into the military. Follow Coopers audacious encounters from being a Training Officer, to 1st Battalion, 22d Artillery, to Field Artillery Staff Officer, to Senior Operations Officer, to Deputy Commanding General US Army Recruiting Command, taking him across the United States to Vietnam, Germany and the Persian Gulf. Alternating stories about his exciting encounters in the field, his own insights and his experiences that will benefit the readers, The Reluctant General proves that what many others may think is a will-of-the-wisp can turn into something real.