An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990-2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of creating and enacting international...
Diplomats
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Author:White, GeoffSummary: - Author:Reid, PatrickSummary:
Through the mud and the blood with the North Irish Horse during World War II to the genteel parlours of international diplomacy, Patrick Reid served his nation. As a Military Police commander in the steamy jungles of postwar Malaya or...
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Author:Graham, John W., Bothwell, RobertSummary:In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan...
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Author:Graham, John W.Summary:In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan...
- Author:MCINNES, GrahamSummary:
With vivid recall of detail, the author describes life in a suburb of Melbourne during his boyhood in the 1920's.
- Author:Neggers, CarlaSummary:
Diplomatic security agent Maggie Spencer gets a tip that allows her to arrest the FBI's most wanted man, Nicholas Janssen. Maggie receives lots of attention after the arrest--especially from U.S. Marshal Rob Dunnemore, who's suspicious...
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Author:Wilkshire, NickSummary:In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't...
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Author:Gaudio, ClaudioSummary:A diplomat is captured by supposed insurgents and is waiting in a room for his execution. Texas is a provocative story of death against the backdrop of ugly and uncompromising politics. It is also a meditation on empire, imperialism and...
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Author:Wright, Robert A.Summary: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...
- Author:Clark, Andrea YaryuraSummary:
A young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.
- Author:Mbatha-Raw, Gugu, Hosten-Craig, JenniferSummary:
1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the supersonic Concorde--a time of new possibilities and social upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the Caribbean island of Grenada, was as surprised as...
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Author:Larson, ErikSummary:The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador...
- Author:Wyatt, ScottSummary:
When Alden Frost and Fatimah Ibrahim break into PS 32 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, their motives appear benign. They raise a “companion flag,” a symbol of all that human beings have in common. But PS 32 is more than a school. It doubles as...
- Author:Chapnick, AdamSummary:
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973...
- Author:Jones, AllanSummary:
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New...
