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	Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service Jean M. Wilkowski A Foreign Service Author!
	The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II Judith M. Heimann A Foreign Service Author!
	The Ambassador: Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat John Shaw
	American Diplomats:The Foreign Service at Work Edited by William D. Morgan and Charles Stuart Kennedy A Foreign Service Author!
	An American Soldier in World War I Robert Sherwood Dillon A Foreign Service Author!
	The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II Ulrich Straus A Foreign Service Author!
	Anthology of Arabic Literature, Culture and Thought Dr. Bassam K. Frangieh A Foreign Service Author!
	Are We Winning? Are They Winning? A Civilian Adviser's Reflections on Wartime Vietnam John R. Campbell A Foreign Service Author!
	Aristocrat and Proletarian: The Extraordinary Life of Paxton Pattison Hibben Stuart G. Hibben A Foreign Service Author!
	At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb James E. Goodby A Foreign Service Author!
	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King; Edited by Clayborne Carson; reviewed by Eugene Holley Jr.
	The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift Helena P. Schrader A Foreign Service Author!
	Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council Benjamin R. Justesen A Foreign Service Author!
	Captain Hogan: Sailor, Merchant, Diplomat on Six Continents Michael H. Styles A Foreign Service Author!
	Captains of Bomb Disposal T. Dennis Reece A Foreign Service Author!
	César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers’ Struggle for Social Justice Marco G. Prouty A Foreign Service Author!
	A Chronology of United States-Iraqi Relations, 1920-2006 Henry E. Mattox A Foreign Service Author!
	Chronology of World Terrorism, 1901-2001 Henry E. Mattox A Foreign Service Author!
	Coalitions - Building and Maintenance: The Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, War on Terrorism Andrew J. Pierre
	Cold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and their Role in the Cultural Cold War Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan A Foreign Service Author!
	Contra Cross: Insurgency And Tyranny in Central America, 1979-1989 William R. Meara
	Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives Robert Kim Bingham Sr. A Foreign Service Author!
	Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain Yale Richmond A Foreign Service Author!
	Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and the Cold War, 1939-1958 Bo Lidegaard (Translated by W. Glyn Jones), Peter Lang USA (New York) and Peter Lang AG (Bern)
	Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law Thomas Graham
	Dissent: Voices of Conscience Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon A Foreign Service Author!
	Distinguished Service: Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1896-1984 (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy) Edited by Roger Kirk A Foreign Service Author!
	Divide and Perish: The Geopolitics of the Middle East Curtis F. Jones A Foreign Service Author!
	The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End Peter W. Galbraith
	Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire Witney W. Schneidman
	Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb Charles L. Pritchard
	Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council Edited, with introductions, by Karl F. Inderfurth and Loch K. Johnson
	The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century Richard T. Arndt A Foreign Service Author!
	French Covert Action in the American Revolution James M. Potts
	Gaming Regulation in Nevada: The Second Sawyer Administration Guy W. Farmer A Foreign Service Author!
	The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China Jay Taylor A Foreign Service Author!
	Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman and Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci
	The Great North Korea Famine: Famine, Politics and Foreign Policy Andrew S. Natsios A Foreign Service Author!
	The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev; reviewed by John J. Miller
	Hell's Angels Newsletter: The Final Six Years 2002-2007: World War II Aerial Operations, Personal Narratives, Photos and Postwar Events Eddie Deerfield A Foreign Service Author!
	Hero of Hispaniola: America's First Black Diplomat, Ebenezer D. Bassett Christopher Teal A Foreign Service Author!
	Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard with a Preface by Cuesta Ray Benberry; reviewed by Amy Wan
	Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia David H. Shinn and Thomas P. Ofcansky A Foreign Service Author!
	Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794 - 1828 Gordon S. Brown A Foreign Service Author!
	In His Own Words: The Writings, Speeches and Letters of George Henry White Compiled and edited by Benjamin R. Justesen A Foreign Service Author!
	In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda Robert E. Gribbin A Foreign Service Author!
	In the Shadows of History: Fifty Years Behind the Scenes of Cold War Diplomacy Chester L. Cooper
	In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. Bush Ivo H. Daalder and I.M. Destler
	Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency Wilson P. Dizard Jr. A Foreign Service Author!
	The Kremlin & the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin (Modern War Studies) Dale R. Herspring A Foreign Service Author!
	The Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the INF Treat Maynard W. Glitman A Foreign Service Author!
	Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, 1806-1811 (Studies in Maritime History) Edited by Evabeth Miller Kienast and John Phillip Felt A Foreign Service Author!
	The Making of a Pacific Citizen Hugh L. Burleson II A Foreign Service Author!
	The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace Dennis Ross
	Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War Richard N. Gardner
	A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker and North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions Marion Creekmore Jr. A Foreign Service Author!
	My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III and Malcolm McConnell A Foreign Service Author!
	Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase: Robert Livingstone’s Mission to France, 1801-1804 Frank W. Brecher A Foreign Service Author!
	Negritude Agonistes: Assimilation Against Nationality in the French-Speaking Caribbean and Guyane Christian Filostrat A Foreign Service Author!
	Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power Robert Dallek
	The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily Gordon S. Brown A Foreign Service Author!
	Opening NATO's Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era Ronald D. Asmus
	The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush Dale R. Herspring A Foreign Service Author!
	Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal Stephen H. Grant A Foreign Service Author!
	Poland: A Transitional Analysis Richard J. Hunter Jr., Leo V. Ryan and Robert E. Shapiro A Foreign Service Author!
	Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey (Explorations in Culture and International History) Yale Richmond A Foreign Service Author!
	The Press of Battle: The GI Reporter and the American People Jack E. Pulwers A Foreign Service Author!
	Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain Edited by Dale R. Herspring A Foreign Service Author!
	Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World’s Poor Stephen Sposato and W. A. Smith
	Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended Jack F. Matlock Jr. A Foreign Service Author!
	The Return of the Exiles: Australia's Repatriation of the Indonesians, 1945-47 Frank C. Bennett Jr. A Foreign Service Author!
	Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power (Modern War Studies) Dale R. Herspring A Foreign Service Author!
	Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance Frank W. Brecher A Foreign Service Author!
	Shef-Ideolog: M. A. Suslov I "nauka" o kommunizme v SSSR (Chief Ideologue: M.A. Suslov and the "Science" of Communism in the USSR) Note: Not available on Amazon.com; translated from the original English manuscript, the book is available only in Russian through TEIS Press at Moscow State University. Paul M. Carter Jr. A Foreign Service Author!
	Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City John Limbert A Foreign Service Author!
	A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm Robert Pringle A Foreign Service Author!
	Sisters in Arms: British & American Women Pilots during World War II Helena Page Schrader A Foreign Service Author!
	South Carolina 1775 - A Crucible Year Edmund Alexander Bator A Foreign Service Author!
	Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts Edited by J.W. Wright, Jr.
	Tales from the Embassy: The Extraordinary World of C. Van H. Engert Jane Morrison Engert A Foreign Service Author!
	This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace Swanee Hunt
	Thomas Barclay (1728-1793): Consul in France, Diplomat in Barbary Priscilla H. Roberts and Richard S. Roberts A Foreign Service Author!
	Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution Gordon S. Brown A Foreign Service Author!
	The Truth about Camp David:The Untold Story about the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process Clayton E. Swisher A Foreign Service Author!
	Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History Richard B. Parker A Foreign Service Author!
	Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy David Paull Nickles
	The US Foreign Service: From New Frontier To War On Drugs John W. Stahlman A Foreign Service Author!
	U.S. Relations with Latin America During the Clinton Years: Opportunities Lost or Opportunities Squandered? David Scott Palmer
	Voice of America: A History Alan L. Heil, Jr. A Foreign Service Author!