Of the many characters who have fallen through the cracks of history and have escaped academic attention, one of the most ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

And not just figure out but write about it. Crawford will discuss his book “This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s ...

It’s much too early to judge the larger impact of the Ukrainian attack on the outcome of the war, or even, more narrowly, on the currently planned Istanbul negotiations. But it’s not too early ...

A novel, no doubt, but what no one knows is that it did refer to India’s first war of Independence. Not the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, but one waged almost a hundred years earlier. The name of its ...

Indeed, a great deal of space is devoted to guerrilla wars in which the U.S., though it did play a role, did not fight: Greece, Huks, El Salvador, and Afghanistan. Although at times the author has ...

A longtime California journalist, Winckler recently published his memoir, featuring a young female revolutionary, Ana -- a guerilla leader during a decade when indigenous Maya fought to shrug off ...

Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to remake nations around the world.

Most people agreed that German occupation of Britain, whether by conquest or treachery, was virtually inevitable. Conventional warfare, many believed, could not prevail against the German blitzkrieg ...

If plantation life still offered its pre-Civil War social opportunities, pretty Letty Allard would never have sought diversion in the city, would not have fallen in with the fast country-club set ...

Guerrilla Operations in the Philippines In 158 pages of text and 53 pages of footnotes, James A. Villanueva gives us an information-dense yet readable overview of the logistics, politics, and ...