The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all.
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Citoyen sans frontières
by Helvig, Jean-Michel, Hessel, Stéphane
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Citoyen sans frontières
by Helvig, Jean-Michel, Hessel, Stéphane
fromTémoignages pour l'histoire
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Type: Book
"Etre partout sans être enfermé nulle part, telle pourrait être la devise de Stéphane Hessel. Homme d'engagement et de culture, ce grand résistant devenu ambassadeur de France est avant tout un citoyen du monde. Entré dans la carrière diplomatique après la Seconde Guerre mondial…
"During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America's vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia's fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite anoth…
A memoir by a policy-maker for Bill Clinton details the former president's involvement with Boris Yeltsin and his role in keeping Russia stable as the onetime superpower confronted crisis after crisis in the post-Soviet era.
"During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America's vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia's fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite anoth…
As a high-ranking American diplomat during the Cold War, Martin J. Hillenbrand was witness to some of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century history. After five years in Asia and Africa, Hillenbrand spent most of his diplomatic career dealing with Europe in the critical …
Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him…
Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him…