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Bill Rapp’s Prague Spring: Cold War Redux
Bill Rapp’s Prague Spring: Cold War Redux
Book Review: The Prague SpringBy Bill Rapp/Coffeetown PressReviewed by Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer [...] More
From Kabul to the French Quarter
From Kabul to the French Quarter
BOOK REVIEW: THE FOURTH OPTIONBy JACK CARR AND M.P. WOODWARD / ATRIA/EMILY BESTLER BOOKSReviewed [...] More
From Apex Political Predator to Symbolic War Criminal
From Apex Political Predator to Symbolic War Criminal
BOOK REVIEW: Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II GeneralPeter Mauch [...] More
Allies In War, Partners In Peace
Allies In War, Partners In Peace
BOOK REVIEW: Ike and Winston: World War, Cold War, and an Extraordinary FriendshipBy: Jonathan W. [...] More
Putin's Dangerous, Corrupt, and Often Incompetent Spies
Putin's Dangerous, Corrupt, and Often Incompetent Spies
BOOK REVIEW Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret WarBy [...] More
Finally, a Taiwan Strategy That Goes Beyond "Do Something"
Finally, a Taiwan Strategy That Goes Beyond "Do Something"
BOOK REVIEW: Defending Taiwan A Strategy To Prevent War With ChinaBy Eyck Preymann / Oxford [...] More
Thus Spoke Henry Kissinger
Thus Spoke Henry Kissinger
BOOK REVIEW: The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations Tom Wells/ [...] More
A New Focus on the Psychology of Betrayal
A New Focus on the Psychology of Betrayal
BOOK REVIEW: Treason, Terrorism, and BetrayalBy William Costanza / Lynne Rienner PublishersReviewed [...] More
Before Midnight Hammer There Was Doom 34
Before Midnight Hammer There Was Doom 34
BOOK REVIEW: DOOM 34: A Firsthand Account of the Top-Secret Mission that Launched Operation Desert [...] More
Churchill–de Gaulle: Men of Destiny, Artists of History
Churchill–de Gaulle: Men of Destiny, Artists of History
BOOK REVIEW: The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the [...] More
A Murder in Mexico
A Murder in Mexico
BOOK REVIEW: THE DEATH OF TROTSKY: THE TRUE STORY OF THE PLOT TO KILL STALIN’S GREATEST ENEMYBy [...] More
Carter's China Gambit Revisited
Carter's China Gambit Revisited
BOOK REVIEW: Jimmy Carter and China: Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War.By Sheng Peng [...] More
Gray Zone Games: Idov's Thriller Mirrors Today's Shadowy Reality
Gray Zone Games: Idov's Thriller Mirrors Today's Shadowy Reality
BOOK REVIEW: The Cormorant HuntBy Michael Idov / ScribnerReviewed by: Anne and Jay GrunerThe [...] More
The Original Sin of Vietnam
The Original Sin of Vietnam
BOOK REVIEW: Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America’s Descent Into [...] More
A Narrow Lens on China's Red Revolution
A Narrow Lens on China's Red Revolution
BOOK REVIEW: Red Dawn Over China How Communism Conquered a Quarter of a HumanityBy Frank Dikötter / [...] More
The Struggles for a Two-State Solution – An Israeli Perspective
The Struggles for a Two-State Solution – An Israeli Perspective
BOOK REVIEW: A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for StatehoodBy Colin Shindler / [...] More
The Gray Man’s Back—And the Body Count’s Rising
The Gray Man’s Back—And the Body Count’s Rising
BOOK REVIEW: The Hard Line (Gray Man)By: Mark Greaney/ BerkleyReviewed by: Susan GorgioskiThe [...] More
Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia
Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia
BOOK REVIEW: The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful KremlinBy James [...] More