Then on August 10, despite the preparations, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch gave Hitler a memorandum from General Ludwig Beck that the German army was still not in a state of readiness for an armed conflict.14* IN MID-AUGUST, ...
After about forty - five minutes , Eliasson ushers Talbott to a corner of the room . The two stand under a glittering chandelier , next to a grand piano . Eliasson tells the assembled guests that Talbott was named a commander of the ...
Dan Lavi is a young diplomat sent by Ben-Gurion to serve as the country's first ambassador to Berlin, in an effort to save as many Jews as possible under the controversial Transfer Agreement.
When a relief mission is launched, the library ships insist that Deputy Ambassador Edward Goldstein join the crew. On NotTrist, it becomes evident why the library ships wanted Goldstein.
Written by a US Army veteran and New England police officer, The Ambassador is full of dry wit, page-turning action and shocking twists - if you haven't met Peter Colt's complex, intriguing hero, it's a great place to start.
All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead.
THE AMBASSADOR is an extraordinarily persuasive account of how the world could be, and the challenges of cloning human beings. The novel argues that human nature won't change, though much else about us will.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A send-up of a poetry conference (something like AWP) that involves bossy Americans and stolen overcoats.
At the same time, Ambassador van Heerden is embroiled in an affair with Nicolette, the promiscuous mistress of the Embassy's Third Secretary. Each man tells his story, and each pays a price.
And whilst there is progress in the battle against ageing and disease, there is also a darker side to the scientific breakthroughs, as Bill Strether, US Ambassador to London, is about to discover.
An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life...