BOOK DESCRIPTIONOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors…
Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it…
“One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONThis book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in…
“It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be…
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia — and molded the future path of one of America’s preeminent diplomatic correspondents.
“It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half-Russian, half-Sudanese professor of Islamic studies, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-…
Written jointly with Pinar Dogan, this is an update of our 2010 book (see below) on the infamous Sledgehammer case in Turkey. In addition…
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was…