On October 1, 1982, the German Bundestag elected Helmut Kohl Federal Chancellor. Of the 495 votes cast, 256 were cast for the leader of the Opposition and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, who thereupon replaced Helmut Schmidt (SPD) as head of government. After the results of the vote were announced by the Vice President of the Bun- destag, Richard Stucklen, the supporters of the new…
Peter Wright was a key figure in british intelligence for nearly a quarter of a century. This book, which the British government has gone to great lengths to keep from being published, is a memoir that recounts his extraordinary career in that wilderness of mirrors, the world of espionage.
God's politician: John Paul at the Vacitan examines the transformation of the once-static papacy into a high-profile office which wields great power behind the scenes.
Onder de titel het oude Nederlands-Indië" verscheen 13 september 1971 het eerste deel van mijn memoires. Dit behelsde herinneringen uit mijn Indische loopbaan als rechterlijk ambtenaar van 1919-1939, laatstelijk officier van justitie te Makassar en te Semarang, en als par lementariër van 1927-1931 lid van de Volksraad en van 1939-1942 zijn laatste voorzitter. Dat deel loopt tot de capitulatie…
The Last Mughal is much more than the biography of one man. It is the story of a city, Delhi, teeming with conmen and holy men, hawkers and prostitutes. It is also a lament for the lost world of the Mughals, a genuinely multicultural synthesis of Indian and Islamic traditions, from music to miniature painting. Above all, it is a terrific retelling of the event that ended Zafar's reign the India…
Salikan Hardjo (1910-1993) devoted his entire life to representing the interests of his people, the Surinamese Javanese. He was born on Java and grew up in Suriname since 1920 as the son of Javanese contract workers. In the 1930s, under the pseudonym Bok Sark, he wrote fierce articles against the colonial administration and the way in which Javanese contract workers were treated in Suriname. Af…
Pol Pot is an extraordinarily challenging subject, for no modern revolutionary leader has so purposefully, and successfully, left so little trace. And he certainly deserves his enigmatic reputation: an indifferent student, he became a gifted teacher; an amiable mediocrity as a youth, he led (leads) one of the world's toughest guerrilla organizations; described by all who knew him as polite, cha…
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.
Barbara Bush is certainly among the most pop- ular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compas- sion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children.
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.