During a 37-year Foreign Service career, Terry McNamara had three postings in Vietnam—as provincial adviser with the CORDS program, first…
Stephen T. Thuransky was arrested for calling the president of Hungary an obscene name. Communist Hungary in 1947 was a…
Reporting live from a shortwave radio station near the German border at the beginning of World War II, NBC’s first…
Louise Keeley waited and worried in neighboring countries when her husband, American diplomat Robert V. “Bob” Keeley, faced the encircling…
Kidnappings, particularly those of high-ranking political officials, were not uncommon in 1970s Uruguay given the prominence of an urban guerilla…
Arlene Render’s career took her from a segregated neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, to three ambassadorships and a lifetime of diplomatic…
Throughout most of World War II, Hungary operated in conjunction with the Axis Powers and actively contributed to the Nazi…
May 15th, 1955, was a momentous occasion for a war-battered Europe, and for the national history of Austria as the…
In June of 1937, Beijing became one of the first cities to fall as Japanese forces began their conquest of…
The years leading up to the autumn of 1979 in Iran proved to be turbulent, resulting in a radical transformation…