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Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xiii, 383 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an unrivaled perspective of the entire conflict. As the representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Kirkuk in 2003 and then the political advisor...
45) Daughter of war
Author
Series
A Pike Logan thriller volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called...
46) The West at bay
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The West at Bay presents an analysis of the problems confronting the Western world along with a compelling argument for a close political and economic association of the Western nations of Europe to be developed in cooperation with the United States.
47) Fear itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thriller set in the Depression-era years before World War II finds fledgling FBI Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim dispatched to infiltrate the pro-Nazi German-American Bund organization and discovering a sinister plot targeting the White House.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
�2012
Edition
1st Vintage Bks. ed.
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author argues that if the influence of the United States decreases in the world then war among rising nations would rise, there would be a decline in democracy, and there would be a weakening of the global free market economy.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.: May 2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a team of assassins murders a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS 'Milwaukee,' is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of American traitor Noel Field, who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and 1940s before he was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his Communist comrades, sharing insight into his decision to defect in spite of his privileged background and Ivy League education.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustraitons ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported on the events as it happened, an action-packed account of Reagan's failures in the 1983 Marines barracks bombing in Beirut. On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's tour along the Spanish-American War battle trail to assess the historical conflict's enduring role in shaping relations between the United States and Cuba, discussing such topics as American imperialism and Guantánamo.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events of Reagan's historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, examining the importance of Reagan's speech at Moscow State University that offered a new vision of the future to the Soviet people.