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Diplomat's wife volume 2
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"'If I go back to Paris, it would be my third time there as an undercover agent...' Kitty murmured. 'I ask myself, how many chances does one person get?' Paris, 1941. When Kitty is asked to return to Paris as an undercover agent, she knows the mission is her most dangerous yet. But she has been fighting the Nazis for too long to stop now. And her role within the Resistance has already cost her friends, family and now - almost - her own marriage. Because...
184) The Kennan diaries
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The annotated diaries of the late influential American diplomat and foreign policy strategist spans ninety years of U.S. history while sharing his insights into Depression-era capitalism, the Cold War, and his literary achievements.
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"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries...
186) The envoy
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The epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps.
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"An internal account of the political activities taking place inside the Kremlin from the fall of the USSR under the administration of Gorbachev to the future of Russia under Putin"--Provided by publisher.
"Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin--such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving...
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A selection of the early diaries, 1880-1918, of Count Harry Kessler, translated into English from German. This volume of early diary entries by the exiled museum director and secret agent encompasses the turn of the twentieth century and offers unique insights into European court life and a world on the brink of the Great War.
192) Our man in Tehran
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In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal and the men and women who were working undercover in Tehran to bring the hostage crisis to an end.
193) M. Butterfly
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A French civil service officer risks and then abandons everything in his life in his obsessive pursuit of a enigmatic Chinese opera diva who harbors a secret.
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A Starfleet propulsion expert and his alien assistant come aboard the Enterprise to increase efficiency and then the Enterprise mysteriously rockets to an area previously unexplored by humans. Kirk discovers a ship carrying cryogenically frozen survivors of the 1990s Earth war known as the Eugenic Wars and when his life-support system dies, Khan, comes to life immediately, hatching a plan to rule mankind. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet...
197) Todo mal
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Diplomat Fernando loses it when his fiancée confesses on social media that she has cheated on him. He decides to steal the headress plumes of Montezuma, an artifact that he had negotiated to bring back to Mexico. His cousins, one a former pop star and one graduate student who has never finished his dissertation, will fight to save Fernando from his troubles.
200) American Herro
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The inspirational story of Herro Mustafa's journey from being a young refugee fleeing terror in Iraq to becoming a U.S. diplomat. With a career that has taken her across the globe, Mustafa has worked with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and is currently working for Vice President Joe Biden. Now, 30 years later, she invites filmmaker Kirk Roos, her first American childhood friend, to accompany her back to Iraq to retrace her journey to freedom....
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