On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan made one of his most famous Cold War speeches at the Berlin Wall.…
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So it’s 1935, you’re blonde and Jewish and have a bit of Wanderlust. And where do you go? Why, Nazi…
Crossing Qaddafi’s Line of Death – April 15, 1986
The late 1980s saw an alarming decline in U.S.-Libyan relations. A plane hijacking and airport attacks in Rome and Vienna…
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Born in New York City in 1903, Clare Boothe Luce led a diverse career as a playwright, journalist, editor, and…
The Show Trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and its pilot, Francis…
The USS Pueblo Incident — Assassins in Seoul, A Spy Ship Captured
January of 1968 saw two of the most serious incidents to occur on the Korean peninsula since the end of…
Recalling the Attack on the U.S. Compound in Benghazi – from June 1967
The circumstances seem all too familiar — political turmoil leads to angry mobs storming the U.S. compound in Benghazi. Except…
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Back to Memoirs and Occasional Papers Peregrina:Unexpected Adventures of an American Consul “Wonderfully readable and sharp as a stiletto, Peregrina…
The Anguish of Surrender
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of WWII “The Anguish of Surrender is a marvelous…