Perspectives On Strategic Defense

Engineering & Transportation

Thompson, Wayne C.

Blechman, Barry M.

Guerrier, Steven W

Rathjens, George

Engineering

Routledge

In this perceptive biography, Wayne Thompson brings to life six decades of German history by tracing the political career of Herbert Wehner, one of Germany's most active and influential politicians, from the 1920s until his death in early 1990. Wehner entered the political arena in the 1920s as an anarchist and Communist firebrand determined to destroy the Weimar Republic. During the 1930s, he was a key leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and served as the Comintern's chief analyst for German affairs in Moscow during Stalin's purges. In the 1940s, Wehner broke with communism and went to the FRG, where he joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He ascended to the top leadership of the party in the 1950s, becoming one of the most powerful men in West German politics in the years after Konrad Adenauer's retirement in 1963. In the 1970s, Wehner succeeded in holding the SPD together as the country's ruling party, but by the early 1980s his life's work collapsed as the SPD was reduced to the level of an opposition party. By the time of his death in 1990, Wehner had become a symbol of the twists and turns, the highs and lows of a half century of not only German but also Soviet and East European history. Throughout the book, Wayne Thompson places Wehner's career in the larger political context of twentieth-century Germany, offering insights into the nature of the contemporary SPD and the FRG's political system in general. He shows how Wehner's career paralleled the evolution of the SPD from a Marxist revolutionary party to a nondogmatic mass reform party, contending that the SPD played an important part in creating a regime that views its citizens not as components of an overpowering economic process but rather as actors capable of determining their own fates - something that Wehner himself ultimately came to believe.

The Political Odyssey Of Herbert Wehner

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Westview Press

A collection of essays combining wide-ranging scholarly analyses with an extensive selection of the major speeches by Britain's longest-sitting prime minister. Topics include Thatcher's leadership style, the stages of her political career, her personal background, her ideology and her foreign and defense policies, and her role in the Cold War. Provides a detailed description of why Thatcher lost the support of her Tory colleagues in November 1990. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister Indomitable

History

Thompson, Juliet S

Europe

<div>Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, is a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, both located in Washington, D.C. His many books include The Choice and The Grand Chessboard . He lives in Washington, D.C.</div>

Perspectives On Strategic Defense (Westview Special Studies in National Security and Defense Policy)

EDITORS

Gallois, Pierre

In the Eye of the Storm: Kurt Riezler and the Crises of Modern Germany

Americas

Univ of Iowa Pr

Western Europe, 1989 (The World today series)

Stryker-Post Publications

Canada, 1992 (World Today Series)

Travel

Canada

Stryker Post

The opportunity to retire evaded George Marshall. In September 1950, General Marshall, as he was called by everyone, left his office at the American Red Cross and was driven across the Potomac River to the Pentagon to be sworn into his new post as Secretary of Defense. If you did not know that the General of the Army George Marshall's last official office was Secretary of Defense, you would not be alone. For most people, his story ends with the Marshall Plan, and there has not been a biography dedicated to George Marshall in his final official role until now.

A General's Last Call: George C. Marshall as Secretary of Defense, 1950-51

Mariner Publishing Company, Inc.

This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present.

CANADA 2013 29ED (World Today (Stryker))

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