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.
This highly contoversial book reveals, for the first time, one of the greatest military, political and financial secrets of recent times. It is nothing less than the true, if fantastic, account of how Pakistan and the USA covertly controlled the largest guerrilla war of this century, dealing to the Soviet Russian presence in Afghanistan a military defeat that has come to be called 'Russia's Vie…
Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collaborators ask in Argument Without End, a book that will stand as a major contribution to what we know about the Vietnam War. Drawing on a series of meetings that brought together, for the first time ever, senior American and Vietnamese officials who had serv…
Pada abad 19, Betawi-Weltevreden dipromosikan dengan sebutan: Queen of the East (Ratu dari Timur). Saat itu Betawi mengalami transfusi yang cukup besar dari para pendatang Eropa. Serdadu dan pedagang dari abad 19 ini jauh berbeda dari rekan-rekan mereka di abad 17. Mereka lebih santun dan terhormat ketimbang serdadu dan petani yang didatangkan JP Coen dua abad sebelumnya. Di sekitar Weltevreden…
This book is a significant study of Indonesia's achievement of independence from the Netherlands immediately following World War II. It places the military and diplomatic struggle between the Indonesians and the Dutch within the international context of the period, so that the conflicting pressures on the two parties as they sought an acceptable, realistic, and workable agreement are made much …
Buku ini berisi tentang latar belakang pelaku-pelaku kunci dalam tragedi sejarah 1965 yang terlibat dalam gerakan 30 September. Selain Letkol. Untung, masih ada sosok Sjam Kamaruzzaman yang misterius. Kemudian Lettu. Doel Arief, yang juga tidak jelas nasibnya. Dan tentu saja Aidit, yang ditembak mati sesaat setelah tertangkap di Boyolali oleh pasukan Kolonel Yasir Hadibroto.
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…
An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms.
The objective of the Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) concept is to develop closer economic relations within the AIDA region through improving the enabling environment for private sector trade and investment. A key strength of the AIDA concept lies in the essential complementarity of the Australian and AIDA region of Indonesia economies, for example between Australian technology and …
Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents…