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A collection of one hundred columns written between 1962-1987 on subjects such as the Vietnam War, how to fry the perfect egg, and cats―to name a few. Full of the author's wit, compassion, direct and often irreverent observations, and the ability to laugh at himself.
"Andrew Tully was a newspaperman, a publisher, an author, a foreign correspondent, a White House correspondent, and a nationally syndicated columnist...He wrote a nationally syndicated column for 25 years" --P. [4] of cover.
At the end of World War II, Andrew Tully was one of three Americans allowed to enter Berlin as a guest of a Russian artillery battalion commander. He spent the next seventeen years gathering eye-witness accounts, collecting war diaries and letters, and reading over one hundred books in order to write this gripping and comprehensive account about the fall of Berlin.
Like Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation, " Sorel's moving account of the women war correspondents of this century at last brings to light the exploits of more than 100 of this country's unsung heroes. of photos.
On August 24, 1814, the British set fire to the White House and, within an hour, the Capitol had been gutted. The burning of the White House was an unthinkable action and galvanized a divided country into unified resistance. Andrew Tully has added flesh to the bones of this true story of an often over-looked and confusing period of U.S. history.
Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and tells the story - and each case throws light on particular US tactics of intervention.
An important historical overview of the initial years of the CIA following WW II. Its operations and development are carefully scrutinized and comments concerning the CIA's accomplishments and flops are drawn from a wide range of opinions and are studied from both strategic and tactical angles.
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