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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George,... (more)

The Cold War: A New History

by John Lewis Gaddis

The "dean of Cold War historians" ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why —from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the... (more)

World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World

World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World

by Christopher Andrew

In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source." Renowned historian Christopher Andrew had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. In 1999, they published... (more)

Present at the Creation My Years in the State DepartmentDean Acheson

Present at the Creation My Years in the State Department

by Dean Acheson

Great Power Diplomacy: 1814-1914

by Norman Rich

This survey of the foreign relations of the great powers is essentially a straightforward diplomatic history: an attempt to describe how statesmen conducted foreign policy, how they dealt with crisis situations, and how they succeeded or failed to resolve them.

The Forrestal diaries;

The Forrestal Diaries, 1951, edited by Walter Millis. Diaries and writings of America's first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal. Hardcover with dust jacket, 581 pages.

Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941

Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941

by Anthony Read

An engrossing account of the mutual nonaggression treaty signed by Hitler and Stalin in 1939, and the historical events it produced. Here readers will be able to view the dramatic story of the circumstances behind the signing, and twenty-two months later, the breaking of this notorious pact.

Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion

Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion

by Walter T. K. Nugent

Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding fathers’ intentions. Did they want the United States to become a republic or an empire? Thomas Jefferson, after all, called the young nation an “empire for liberty.” Later words through two centuries all evoked empire: “manifest destiny” in the 1840s, “benevolent assimilation” in 1898, and “our responsibility to lead”... (more)

Diplomat Among Warriors The Unique World of a Foreign Service Expert

Diplomat Among Warriors The Unique World of a Foreign Service Expert

by Robert Murphy

Diplomat Among Warriors by Robert Murphy 1964 Hardcover

Honorable Treachery: A History of Us Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIAG. J. A. O'Toole

Honorable Treachery: A History of Us Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

by G. J. A. O'Toole

Historian and former intelligence officer G.J.A. O'Toole dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the birth of the nation and places them in a larger historical context. An insightful examination which demonstrates how secrecy and duplicity have played a prime role at every major turning point in American history.

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