Dick Parker was renowned in the State Department for his dry acerbic wit. From his early youth on U.S. Cavalry posts…
Reporting live from a shortwave radio station near the German border at the beginning of World War II, NBC’s first…
Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916–1999), seen at right with wife Marlen, served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.…
In 1982, Cold War tensions led to growing concerns about Soviet and Cuban influence in Central America. Following the overthrow…
Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces successfully invaded the Philippines. Those Americans and Filipinos who did not…
It is difficult in this day and age to imagine any ambassador being on the cover of a major magazine…
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist Available in January 2014 “Among Parker’s fascinating insights into…
Nazi Germany launched the Spring Offensive against France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in May 1940. Within six weeks it had…
The Road to the Dayton Peace Accords: The Art of (Im)Possible 1945 – 1992 Socialist Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was a socialist…
Escaping the Political Police in Communist Hungary Harrison Lewis was born in Amarillo, Texas and grew up in Los Angeles,…