Rogues' Gallery presents the epic of America's struggles with the foreign foes who challenged it to greatness or lured it toward possible disaster. Here are finely drawn portraits of such mythic figures as - George III, America's last king and first national enemy, an eccentric gentleman whom Tom Paine denounced as "the royal brute of Britain" Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who six years after his victory at the Alamo conducted a huge funeral in Mexico City to honor his amputated leg Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, George III's great-great-grandson, who never danced with women but would waltz at formal dinners with his officers Hideki Tojo, a diehard militarist, who after Hiroshima urged the Japanese people to live out their lives in caves rather than capitulate to the United States Fidel Castro, who, as a youthful guerrilla leader in the mountains of Cuba, liked to impress American visitors with his knowledge of baseball trivia Saddam Hussein, the self-described "Knight of the Arab Nation," who once aimed to build an Islamic empire that would destroy Israel and stretch from Iraq to Morroco Rogues' Gallery sheds new light on the ambitions and events that drove these extraordinary men into conflict with the United States and illuminates their sometimes bizarre personalities. The drama captured in these pages reveals international conflict as both deeply human and uniquely monstrous. It also shows how the American character has been both formed and deformed by its confrontation with enemies abroad.

Rogues' Gallery: America's Foes from George III to Saddam Hussein

Arts & Photography

Hedrick, Larry

Photography & Video

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A former double agent for East and West Germany recounts his recruitment into the Stasi--the Ministry of State Security--his disillusionment with the Stasi, the privileged underground of fear and intimidation in East Germany, and more.

Beyond the Wall: Memoirs of an East and West German Spy (Intelligence and National Security Series)

History

Adams, Jefferson

Stiller, Werner

Europe

"The Kind of answers you'd get in an informal conversation with an old Pentagon hand." Armed Forces Journal International.

Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Smith, Perry M.

Reference

Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, and interested outsider to the Pentagon's informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. From the type of wristwatch one needs to how to succeed in the Joint Staff, the book delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the pressures and problems of working in "the Building."

Assignment: Pentagon : The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This revised edition of the classic guide Silent Warfare accounts for recent earth-shaking world events -- the breakup of the Soviet empire, for example -- and for the most recent laws and thinking on the new dimensions of intelligence. It remains the only intelligence primer. 
Shulsky and Schmitt, leading intelligence scholars and government experts, write clearly and for the nonexpert in this first comprehensive overview of the elements of intelligence designed for both the students and the general reader. A guide to the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action and to their interrelationship with policymakers and democratic values, Silent Warfare provides a useful framework for understanding today's altered intelligence world as well as the future. It is an informative book for anyone intrigued by the shadowy world of the spy or concerned with security threats, terrorism, or economic espionage.

Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence

Schmitt, Gary James

Shulsky, Abram N.

Military

Presents facts on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, defense forces, area, climate, environment, population, and industries for each country of the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

World Factbook, 1991-92

Business & Money

Central Intelligence Agency

Education & Reference

This is the guide to being a soldier in the U.S. Army. The Soldier's Guidebook answers your questions about Army life, traditions, history, awards, weapon systems, current trends, promotion policy, pay, education, retirement benefits, rank structure - and more. It's the only book that provides an up-to-date picture of all facets of Army life and all the practical information that a soldier needs to know from the day he or she considers joining the Army until discharge or retirement. It is the authoritative source for the person considering Army service, the new recruit, the seasoned veteran, and the interested civilian. Over 300 illustrations.

The Soldier's Guide Book (Ausa Institute of Land Warfare)

Motley, James B.

Bluhm, Raymond K.

Ambassador Ed Rowny holds a unique position in American history as a key arms control advisor and negotiator for presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush. No other policy-maker has ever negotiated for and counseled five presidents and their cabinets. Ambassador Rowny's revealing memoirs contain startling and sometimes amusing anecdotes about Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, Amy Carter, drunken Soviet negotiators, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other U.S. and world figures. It Takes One to Tango highlights what took place behind closed doors and is highly critical of George Bush's presidency. By the man who helped negotiate and then sink SALT II, this outspoken account of events at the highest government levels is a wry inside look at five U.S. administrations and a barbed commentary on the major players in the foreign policy and national security arenas. This is the book that tells you what it's like to sit at the conference table with presidents, how Brezhnev and Gorbachev behaved, what Ronald Reagan said about Raisa Gorbachev - and which emperors had no clothes. Ambassador Rowny provides an unprecedented look at world leaders, the Washington elite, and negotiating about life and death.

It Takes One to Tango

Rowny, Edward, L.

September 1944: perched on the wing of his stricken torpedo bomber, 3,000 feet above a Pacific Ocean teeming with hostile ships, Ensign George Bush prepares to leap into destiny. One yank of his rip cord later, he is prey to a Japanese armada, intent on his capture &amp; interrogation. The story is true. A patriotic young man volunteers for hazardous assignment, knocks out enemy war ships, &amp; collects a pile of medals. His inspiration is his fiance, Barbara, for whom he names his plane. Discover for yourself the gallantry, conflict, &amp; drama that molded our former President in a fascinating &amp; insightful recollection. Over 100 photos.

George Bush: His World War II Years

Biographies & Memoirs

STINNETT, Robert B.

Leaders & Notable People

In Hollow Victory, iconoclastic defense analyst Jeffrey Record targets the conventional view of the Gulf War victory. In his characteristically provocative style, he answers controversial political, military, and strategic questions raised by the war and its aftermath, among them: Were the UN economic sanctions ever really given a chance to work? Could the war have been avoided altogether? Why were assessments of Iraqi strengths and weaknesses so inaccurate? How did the war's operational setting contribute to its outcome? Could a better general than Saddam Hussein have derailed Operation Desert Storm? What were the relative contributions of air, ground, and naval power? Did air power win the war? Were U.S. military planning and operations really free of meddling by civilian authorities? Did the U.S. armed services work together harmoniously? If you thought you understood what happened in Desert Storm, Hollow Victory will challenge your conclusions.

Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf War

Record, Jeffrey

World

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