This is a really good book a combination of the wide lens history and on the ground hinge of history decision making which made...  Read More

This is a really good book a combination of the wide lens history and on the ground hinge of history decision making which made up the early cia and much of our relations with the world today  Read Less

Burke worked behind german lines with the french resistance and later organized and managed many of the missions behind the iro...  Read More

Burke worked behind german lines with the french resistance and later organized and managed many of the missions behind the iron curtain that so disturbed his boss peter sichel  Read Less

” and we paid for that miscalculation with the more than three decades of costly belligerence that followed

” and we paid for that miscalculation with the more than three decades of costly belligerence that followed  Read Less

I would not recommend as a basic primer on the cold war to someone who is not familiar with the stakes involved in the late 1940s and 1950s

I would not recommend as a basic primer on the cold war to someone who is not familiar with the stakes involved in the late 1940s and 1950s  Read Less

To wine lovers throughout europe and north america he is known as a wine merchant having rebuilt the family’s german business i...  Read More

To wine lovers throughout europe and north america he is known as a wine merchant having rebuilt the family’s german business in the united states  Read Less

” i assume that the intent was to write that the deaths of 24000 combatants were dwarfed only by the quartermillion cholera deaths

” i assume that the intent was to write that the deaths of 24000 combatants were dwarfed only by the quartermillion cholera deaths  Read Less

Overall looking back 70 years us intelligence failures have far outnumbered intelligence successes

Overall looking back 70 years us intelligence failures have far outnumbered intelligence successes  Read Less