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Agostino Casaroli | Although his 2000 memoirs revealed a man hostile to communism, his remarkable diplomatic skill made this hostility appear non-existent. |
William C. Rogers III | In 1992, Rogers and his wife Sharon co-wrote a book, Storm Center : A Personal Account of Tragedy & Terrorism which describe the events surrounding the downing of Iran Air 655 and the minivan bombing from their personal perspectives. |
Marco Casagrande | He wrote under the pen name Luca Moconesi a controversial book Mostarin tien liftarit / Hitchhikers on the Road to Mostar (WSOY 1997) about his alleged experiences in the Bosnian Civil War, and based on descriptions of war crimes committed by the main character in the autobiographical book, he came under suspicion as a possible war criminal. |
Syed Shahid Hamid | A veteran intelligence officer, he authored numerous books, notably the Autobiography of a General which was last published in 1965. |
William George Bruce | He also wrote his memoirs, titled I Was Born in America (1937), with both personal and Milwaukee history depicted. |
Ingo Swann | In his 1998 autobiography Penetration : The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, Swann described his work with individuals in an unknown agency who study extraterrestrials, his remote viewing of a secret E. T. base on the hidden side of the moon and his'' shocking'' experience with a sexy scantily dressed female E. T. in a Los Angeles supermarket. |
Jos? Brocca | In his book White Corpuscles in Europe (1939) the American writer Allan A. Hunter views the close of the Spanish Civil War and the opening of World War II from across the Atlantic, and despite the desolate outlook in Europe sees some grounds for optimism in the work of humanitarians including Philippe Vernier (France), Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Germany), Pierre Ceresole (Switzerland), Muriel Lester (England), George Lansbury MP (former leader of the UK Labour Party) - and José Brocca, Spain. |
Carl Joachim Friedrich | Friedrich was the author of an article'' Poison in Our System'' for the June 1941 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, criticizing Songs For John Doe, an album of songs against Roosevelt's peacetime draft (issued in May 1941, before Hitler's Germany had declared war on the United States), by the Almanac Singers, who included the then twenty-one-year-old Pete Seeger, performing under the pseudonym' Pete Bowers'. |
Jonathan Aitken | Aitken wrote a highly confidential letter to Thatcher in early 1980, dealing with allegations that the former Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, had been a double agent also working for the Soviet Union. |
Stephen Ward | In 1987 the book'' Honeytrap, The Secret Life of Stephen Ward'', written by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril was published explaining their theory of Ward's murder, based on several conversations with members of MI5, including Keith Wagstaffe (Ward's case-officer). |
Philip Howard Colomb | His book Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean : A record of naval experiences was published by Longmans in London in 1873, an interesting and informative account, one distinguished by a studied moderation. |
Louise Boyd | (2) Her earlier book that had been held from publication, The Coast of Northeast Greenland, was published in 1948, after the war had ended. |
R. D. Smith | According to MI5 files, Smith was recruited as a Soviet spy by the art historian Anthony Blunt during a visit to Cambridge in 1938. |
Joseph George Rosengarten | He contributed translations of Hessian soldier Stephan Popp's Revolutionary War diary and Achenwall's Observations on North America to a paper,'' American History from German Archives,'' published in the Society's Proceedings for 1900. |
Francis Philip Woodruff | In 1936 he published a second memoir, Old Soldier Sahib, covering his time in the British Army of India. |
Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard | In 1920, he wrote his account of his war time activities in the critically acclaimed Sniping in France (full-text available on Wikisource and as a PDF document), which is still referenced by modern authors on the subject. |
Francis Terry McNamara | Ambassador McNamara's assignment to Can Tho, Vietnam was the basis of'' Escape with Honor : My Last Hours In Vietnam'', written with former British diplomat Adrian Hill (Washington, D. C., Brassey's Memories of War Series, 1997). |
Heather Brooke | While working on The Revolution Will Be Digitised (2011), Heather Brooke received a copy of the documents from a disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteer consisting of the raw material of the United States diplomatic cables leak. |
Zhores Medvedev | Medvedev was dismissed from his position in 1969 after the publication in the USA of his book The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko. |
Francis Philip Woodruff | Richards followed up Old Soldiers with another successful memoir, this time of his service in India, Old Soldier Sahib, in 1936. |
Kim Philby | Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949 ; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York. |
Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet | In 2011 the British mercenary and former Scots Guard and SAS officer, Simon Mann upset members of Clan Gregor and MacGregor's family after publishing his autobiography in which he describes MacGregor as a'' small, toxic, red-haired, farting, foul-mouthed, stentorian dragon''. |
Ziya Bunyadov | The Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), the official newspaper of the Soviet Army, wrote about Bunyadov in 1942 :'' sly, swift as a tiger, the intelligence officer Ziya Bunyadov, who under the improbable conditions, in the most complex situation could clearly orient himself, bring precise data about the number, the armament and the dislocation of the enemy. |
Karl Lennart Oesch | After Oesch was released from prison in February 1948, he devoted himself to military history, researching and writing extensively on Finnish experiences in World War II. |
Harry Hopkins | When the'' Phony War'' phase of World War II ended in May 1940, the situation galvanised Hopkins ; as Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote,'' the curative impact of Hopkins' increasingly crucial role in the war effort was to postpone the sentence of death the doctors had given him for five more years''. |
Charles Manson | As the 40th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders approached, in July 2009,'' Los Angeles'' magazine published an'' oral history'', in which former Family members, law-enforcement officers, and others involved with Manson, the arrests, and the trials offered their recollections of -- and observations on -- the events that made Manson notorious. |
George Proctor Kane | Even though Kane appears to have executed his duties faithfully during these events, and wrote an official account defending his actions (Public record defense by Marshall George P. Kane of his actions on April 19, 1861, in dealing with the riot in Baltimore that shed the first blood of the Civil War), there is no question that he was very pronounced in his Southern sympathies. |
Sol Stern | In 1967, he contributed the article'' A Short Account of International Student Politics and the Cold War with Particular Reference to the NSA, CIA, etc.'' to the magazine. |
Sarah Churchill (actress) | In her account of the work of photo reconnaissance Evidence in Camera Constance Babington Smith records that she was with them and worked closely on the interpretation of photographs for the 1942 invasion of North Africa, Operation Torch. |
John C. Bennett | Bennett has been accused of having a part in Smith's murder, but, as his biographer Andrew F. Smith states, based on the extant evidence,'' Bennett appears to have had no influence on the events that unfolded in Carthage during June 1844'' Following Smith's death, Bennett surprised many by returning briefly to Mormonism and joining forces first with Sidney Rigdon and then with James Strang -- one of several Mormons contending for leadership of the movement. |
Richard Kemp | Kemp co-wrote a book called Attack State Red about the deployment of the Royal Anglian Regiment in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2007 as a part of Operation Herrick. |
Donald Caskie | To help pay for the rebuilding, his autobiographical account of his extraordinary wartime activities was published as The Tartan Pimpernel in 1957. |
Harold Rainsford Stark | In his book, And I Was There : Pearl Harbor and Midway -- Breaking the Secrets (1985), Layton maintained Stark offered meaningless advice throughout this period, withheld vital information at the insistence of his Director of War Plans, Admiral Turner, showed timidity in dealing with the Japanese, and utterly failed to provide anything of use to Kimmel. |
Richard Kemp | His first book, Attack State Red is an account of the 2007 campaign undertaken by the Royal Anglian Regiment, documenting their initial deployment and trials in Afghanistan. |
Jack O'Connell (diplomat) | His memoir King's Counsel : A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, written with Vernon Loeb, was published posthumously in 2011. |
John Lothrop Motley | In 1861, just after outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln. |
Gordon Waterman Chaplin | His article'' Return to the Reefs,'' and his subsequent book Full Fathom Five : Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013) are accounts of this effort. |
David Koff | He was the uncredited ghostwriter of Field Marshal John Okello's memoir, Revolution in Zanzibar (EAPH, 1967), and, under the pseudonym Richard Wakohozi worked closely with Waruhiu Itote (General China) on his memoir, Mau Mau General (EAPH, 1967). |
Kimberly Osorio | In September 2008, Osorio released a book titled Straight From The Source : An Exposé from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible detailing the events of her time at The Source. |
Alexander Gregory Barmine | A book Barmine wrote during this period based on his experiences in the Soviet Union under Stalin's Terror, titled Memoirs of a Soviet Diplomat, was published in 1938. |
Bella Fromm | She is best known as the author of Blood and Banquets (1943), an account of her time as diplomatic correspondent for Berlin newspapers during the Weimar Republic, and of her experiences during the first five years of the Third Reich. |
Am?d?e Baillot de Guerville | Thereafter he continued to travel and write for a short while, producing his memoirs of his experiences in the Far East entitled Au Japon (1904), in which he admitted that the massacre had occurred while insisting it was Japanese coolies who had done the butchering. |
Hong Sung-won | From 1970, his representative novel June 25, a work that deals with the military and the Korean War, was serialized in the magazine Saedae for five years. |
Amleto Vespa | Vespa published an account of his life in Manchukuo in a sensationalist book intended for mass audiences in 1938 : Secret Agent of Japan : A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism. |
Pierre Loti | In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences at Istanbul. |
Mark Twain | A subsequent article,'' To My Missionary Critics'' published in The North American Review in April 1901, unapologetically continues his attack, but with the focus shifted from Ament to his missionary superiors, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. |
Henry Fairlie | In September 1955, Fairlie devoted a column to how the friends and acquaintances of Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean, two members of the Foreign Office widely believed to have defected to Moscow, tried to deflect press scrutiny from the men's families. |
Bram van der Stok | In 1980 he published his war time autobiography entitled : Oorlogsvlieger van Oranje (War Pilot of Orange). |
Lewis Valentine | He also wrote of his experience in the war in Dyddiadur milwr ( A soldier's diary), 1988. |
Louis Nolan | Returning to Great Britain in 1851, he toured continental Europe and wrote two books on horsemanship and cavalry theory, the second of which, Cavalry : Its History and Tactics, was universally acclaimed and led to the adoption of a Nolan-designed saddle by the British Army. |
Walt Whitman | He would write of this experience in'' The Great Army of the Sick'', published in a New York newspaper in 1863 and, 12 years later, in a book called Memoranda During the War. |
Joseph E. Johnston | His Narrative of Military Operations, published in 1874, was highly critical of Davis and many of his fellow generals, continuing his grievance about the unfairness of his ranking as a general and attempting to justify his career as a cautious campaigner. |
John Darrell Sherwood | Afterburner : Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War (2004) is the first book published by Sherwood as an official historian at the U. S. Naval Historical Center. |
Georges Friedmann | In 1987, ten years after his death, Friedmann's War Journal, recounting his experiences as a member of the resistance, was published. |
Garson Kanin | During this time Kanin, with Carol Reed, co-directed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's official record of the Allied Invasion, the Academy-award-winning documentary The True Glory (1945). |
David Petraeus | Counter to what many may think or believe, those comments were refuted by the accounts of Petraeus' actions during the Battles of Najaf, Karbala, and Hillah by Rick Atkinson, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author who rode with Petraeus during the initial fight to Baghdad in March-April 2003 and whose book'' In the Company of Soldiers'' describes that time (e. g., pages 263-271, which describe bullets whistling overhead and ricocheting around Petraeus). |
William Thomas Reay | From Australia he published Australians in War (1900), which was widely distributed to Victorian soldiers. |
Jessica Mitford | Mitford's second memoir, A Fine Old Conflict (1977), comically describes her experiences joining and eventually leaving the Communist Party USA. |
C. E. Ruthenberg | His early journalism is scattered, he wrote relatively few pamphlets, and he published no books in his lifetime, save for a slim volume gathering his 1920 New York trial testimony with that of Isaac Ferguson, who also served as attorney in his case. |
George John Dasch | On May 26, 1942, Dasch and his team (Ernest Peter Burger, Heinrich Harm Heink, and Richard Quirin) left by submarine from Lorient, France. |
Tim Vigors | Vigors's account of his wartime experiences was published posthumously in 2006 as Life's Too Short to Cry : The Inspirational Memoir of an Ace Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot. |
Mary Maverick | Although she did not herself immigrate to Texas until two years after the fall of the Alamo, in 1889 she wrote a brief account of the battle based on the recollections of witnesses. |
William Thomas Campbell Grower | The story of the Colonel's death was recorded in 1872 by John McElroy of the 16th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in his book `` Andersonville : A Story of Rebel Military Prisons.'' |
P?o Valenzuela | He wrote his memoirs of the Philippine Revolution in the 1920s, but historians have since been wary of his autobiography because of some inconsistencies in his version of events, particularly about his meeting with José Rizal in Dapitan in 1896. |
Norman Jones (politician) | His autobiography, Jonesy, published five years earlier in 1982, detailed his wartime service and his political career, although a number of the most controversial aspects and events of his public service occurred after the book's publication. |
Ernie O'Malley | He intended this to be a counter-weight to the official state oral project, the Bureau of Military History, which was not supposed to cover the years of civil war in 1922 -- 23. |
Shivam Sai Gupta | His first game (Terror Attack : Project Fateh) was published in 2010 by IndiaGames Ltd. |
Edward Spears | Sir Edward Spears appears as an interviewee in numerous episodes of the 1964 documentary series The Great War, especially in reference to the major roles he played as liaison to the French Fifth army in the episodes our hats we doff to General Joffre, detailing the retreat to the Marne, and this business may last a long time, detailing the First Battle of the Marne and the subsequent Race to the Sea. |
Vougar Aslanov | In 1997, he published his first book, The Milkman, in Baku, which was heavily censored by the state because of the information about the past of President Heidar Aliyev in Soviet times in the narrative On The Cotton Fields and the criticism of the current Azerbaijani reality in the screenplay for a short movie, American spy in Azerbaijan. |
Herman Kahn | In 1960, as Cold War tensions were near their peak following the Sputnik crisis and amidst talk of a widening'' missile gap'' between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kahn published On Thermonuclear War, the title of which clearly alluded to On War, the classic 19th-century treatise by the German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz. |
Neil Turner (British politician) | When a dyslexic constituent, Stephen Halsall (a psychiatric nurse), sent him a letter in March 2001 complaining about a drug rehabilitation unit being built near to him, Turner returned the letter to the constituent with all the spelling and grammatical errors underlined and annotated in red ink, e, g we only have 1 Labour Party - should be Party's. |
Solon Pierce | These experiences formed the basis of his 1866 book Battle Fields and Camp Fires of the 38th Regiment, published by the Daily Wisconsin Printing House of Milwaukee. |
Shigeo Iwanami | However, he drew the wrath of Japanese militarists by publicly denouncing the Second Sino-Japanese War as `` a war Japan should not be involved in,'' and in 1940 he drew unfavorable attention again by publishing works by Sokichi Tsuda that questioned the veracity of Japan's historical antecedents as described in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. |
B. H. Liddell Hart | On 4 September 2006, MI5 files were released which showed MI5 had suspicions that plans for the D-Day invasion had been leaked to Liddell Hart. |
Leonard Cheshire | In his book, Bomber Command (2010), Sir Max Hastings states'' Cheshire was a legend in Bomber Command, a remarkable man with an almost mystical air about him, as if he somehow inhabited a different planet from those about him, but without affectation or pretension''. |
Lynn Garrison | In June 1992, Garrison, working with Colonel Pat Collins, the Military Liaison Officer with the American embassy, wrote a White Paper visualizing modification of the Forces Armeés d'Haiti (FAdH) into what they called, an Army of the People. |
Brendan Clifford | In the 1990s, Clifford and Lane published several books on Irish history, including Notes on Eire : Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940 -- 2, an account of Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen's World War II intelligence reports to Britain. |
Louisa McLaughlin | Louisa co-authored with Emma two accounts of their nursing experiences Our Adventures During the War of 1870, and Service in Servia Under the Red Cross. |
B. H. Liddell Hart | Liddell Hart's influence greatly waned Shortly after World War II Liddell Hart interviewed or debriefed many of the highest-ranking German generals and published their accounts as The Other Side of the Hill (UK Edition, 1948) and The German Generals Talk (condensed US Edition, 1948). |
Michael Wilson (writer) | In a February 1, 1974 letter to Nelson -LSB- that is contained in the Truman Nelson papers at Boston University's Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Library -RSB-, Wilson (writing from his Ojai, California home at 514 Del Norte Road) recalled how he became involved in one of his last screenwriting adaptation projects : Besides writing his unproduced screenplay for The Raid On Harper's Ferry, Wilson also apparently wrote unproduced scripts for a movie about the Industrial Workers of the World, titled The Wobblies, and for a movie about the infiltration of the Black Liberation Movement, titled Quiet Darkness. |
Ernst Jaakson | In 1995, Ernst Jaakson's autobiographical book Eestile (For Estonia) was published, which deals not only with his life, but also gives a very good overview of the diplomatic developments which took place over the years. |
Lillian Hellman | In 1989, journalist and Ernest Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn, herself in Spain at that period, disputed the account of this trip in Hellman's memoirs and claimed that Hellman waited until all witnesses were dead before describing events that never occurred. |
Rick Smolan | In 1994 Smolan helped to edit, author and publish the book Passage to Vietnam, a collection of photographs in the form of photo-essays of the country of Vietnam in the years after the Vietnam War, with a wide variety of photographs of life in post-war Vietnam including profiles of people and the insides of their homes, open air markets, and college dorms. |
Mauritz A. Hallgren | Later in 1937, Hallgren published a book entitled A Tragic Fallacy, a work later hailed by historian Harry Elmer Barnes as'' the definitive indictment of American interventionist diplomacy from Wilson to Roosevelt.'' |
W. E. B. Du Bois | When the war ended, Du Bois traveled to Europe in 1919 to attend the first Pan-African Congress and to interview African-American soldiers for a planned book on their experiences in World War I. |
Isoroku Yamamoto | In Douglas Niles' 2007 book MacArthur's War : A Novel of the Invasion of Japan (written with Michael Dobson), which focuses on General Douglas MacArthur and an alternate history of the Pacific War (following a considerably different outcome of the Battle of Midway), Yamamoto is portrayed sympathetically, with much of the action in the Japanese government seen through his eyes, though he could not change the major decisions of Japan in World War II. |
Philip Morrison | In 1999, writer Jeremy Stone alleged that Morrison had been the Soviet spy Perseus (spy), a charge that Morrison strongly and credibly rebutted. |
James Mancham | Mancham is the author of three books, Paradise Raped about the 1977 coup, War on America : Seen from the Indian Ocean, written after the September 11 attacks in the United States, and most recently his memoirs ; Seychelles Global Citizen : The Autobiography of the Founding President. |
Denis Wright | However, in his memoir Constantinople and Istanbul : 72 Years of Life in Turkey, Wright's former colleague in Ankara, Sidney Nowill, asserted that these stories were'' contradictory and unbelievable'' -- that the Shah was imprisoned in Tehran at the time (although the false identity part was true, as Wright was concerned about possible ramifications due to his directorship of the Shell Oil Company) -- and were probably concocted for the press by the D-Notice Committee, although the BBC reported in 2009 that the release of official documents from The National Archives confirmed Wright's meeting with the Shah in the Bahamas. |
Andrew Rothstein | This was the first of many rebellions and mutinies in the British Army against the intervention in Russia, involving up to 30,000 troops at its height, the history of which was later documented by Andrew Rothstein in his Soldiers' Strikes of 1919. |
Stephen Ward | As a result of the 1987 book being published the authors were contacted by a former MI6 officer who claimed that Ward was murdered by a contract agent called Stanley Rytter, whose cover was as a freelance journalist and photographer. |
John Denison Champlin, Jr. | He wrote for several periodicals until 1873, when he edited, from the papers of Joseph F. Loubat, secretary to Gustavus V. Fox in his mission to present the congratulations of the United States Congress to the Emperor Alexander II of Russia on his escape from assassination, a work entitled Fox's Mission to Russia (New York, 1873). |
Sumiteru Taniguchi | Sergeant Joe O'Donnell took an earlier black and white photograph and this is included in his book, Japan 1945 : A U. S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero. |
Tony Franklin (coach) | He authored a second book in 2005 titled Victor's Victory (ISBN 9780971428010), which dealt with the sudden death of 15 year old Hoover High School football player Victor Dionte Hill, who died from a cardiac arrest during one of Franklin's consulting sessions. |
Richard A. Falk | Falk has published a number of books and essays analyzing the legality of the Vietnam War and other military operation s. With regard to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he wrote that it is'' inescapable that an objective observer would reach the conclusion that this Iraq War is a war of aggression, and as such, that it amounts to a Crime against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted, prosecuted and punished at the Nuremberg trials conducted shortly after the Second World War.'' |
Rose Lambert | The telegram read in part : Lambert later wrote a book entitled Hadjin and the Armenian Massacres, where she gave a more detailed account of her experiences in Hadjin during the 1909 turmoil. |
Kenneth Maddocks | Bush Life in Nigeria (1978) was an account of the up-country experiences of Elnor when she was married to a district officer in the Nigerian Service before the war. |
William L. Manly | In the compilation of his memories, Manly contacted all the relevant persons possible, then with the aid of a publishing assistant wrote the greater part of his autobiography, The Death Valley in'49, published as a book in 1894, at San Jose from Pacific Tree and Vine Company. |
John E. Olson | In 1985 he self-published his first book,'' O'Donnell : Andersonville of the Pacific'', in which he drew parallels between Camp O'Donnell and the Civil War Confederate prison, Andersonville -- the two prisons represent the two highest levels of mortality in history for U. S. POW's. |
Charles P. Cabell | He left an autobiography'' A Man of Intelligence : Memoirs of War, Peace and the CIA'' published in 1997. |