Product Description: Foreign, diplomatic and defense correspondent, European Union spokesman, fiction and nonfiction author, historian, broadcaster and art critic, Russell Warren Howe was educated in Britain and France and has reported from over a hundred countries in Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia...read more

Product Description: "Howe packs a surprising amount of action and character into the novella's 151 pages, and musings on the importance of personal and professional loyalty (as opposed to arbitrary, dogmatic nationalism) lend this tale a real intelligence and depth."Publishers Weekly

Muir took leave from his White House post to write a biography of Roger Liversedge, the United States' first black Vice President. Muir didn't expect his book to sell particularly well, but then fate took a hand - President Henry Roberts suffered a fatal heart attack and Liversedge was sworn in as President. As Muir watched the helicopter arrive at the White House with the new President on board there was a huge flash - Liversedge had been assassinated, and within two hours Muir's biography was a bestseller!

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Examines the life of Iva Toguri d'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, who was convicted of treason in 1948

The story of how a KGB superspy set up an American agent for the sting of his life traces the short-lived counterspy career of Richard Miller, arrested for espionage in 1984.

Briefly describes the history, geography, and culture of Korea, looks at similarities and differences between the Koreans and the Japanese, and depicts daily life in Korea

Through privileged access to the sealed, sixty-eight-year-old dossier containing the records of the secret trial of Mata Hari, the seductress-spy executed in France as a German spy, the author presents an intriguing account of the German and French intelligence services during World War I

Explores the complex weapons game being played by major and minor powers alike, discussing arms-limitation talks, arms-sales restrictions, the arms systems of major powers, and the defense concepts underlying them