diplomats

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.

William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.

Psychologist Alex Delaware finds himself caught in one of the most menacing cases of his career when he begins an investigation of the killing of a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl, and uncovers a murderous conspiracy.

Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

A former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations discusses the Shah's reign in Iran and the forces and events that caused his downfall.

Describes the errors and short-comings of the United States foreign policy through a series of short stories around a common plot during the 1950s in South East Asia.

A historical novel about the 1932-68 Salazar regime in Portugal, in which, disabled by a stroke, a former state minister and personal friend of the dictator looks back upon his years of influence, as do his children, his housekeeper, and others who played key roles in his life.

Chronicles the lives of the five Russian ambassadors President Roosevelt placed in Moscow in 1933, and describes the events that took place while they were there and the relationships the ambassadors had with Stalin and Roosevelt.