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Raoul Wallenberg

2016
In 1935, Swede Raoul Wallenberg graduated from the University of Michigan. He returned to Sweden, but soon World War II erupted. Sweden remained neutral during the war, which enabled Wallenberg to travel as a salesman throughout Europe. Because of his brilliant command of languages and Swedish citizenship, Wallenberg was chosen to work for the U.S. War Refugee Board in Hungary. His mission was to rescue Jews in Budapest from the Nazis and their monstrous death camps. This volume’s gripping narrative transports readers to the turbulent last days of the war, when Wallenberg’s heroic actions helped to save thousands of Jews.

The ugly American

Homer Atkins is sent by the U.S. government to handled engineering projects in the Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, and when he challenges the entrenched interests over priorities, he finds himself embroiled in controversy. Lederer and Burdick's fictional diplomat laid bare allegations of American arrogance and corruption in 1950s Asia.

Argo

2013
CIA agent Tony Mendez tries to help six Americans escape Tehran during the Iran Hostage Crisis by disguising himself and them as a film crew and hiding in plain sight of the Iranians who have taken over the U.S. embassy.

Secrets of a pet nanny

a journey from the White House to the dog house
Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life as a globe-trotting career diplomat. Her job took her from the corridors of power at the White Hourse to postings in Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, and finally, London. And then she decided to pack it all in and become a professional dog-sitter.

Joseph P. Kennedy

the mogul, the mob, the statesman, and the making of an American myth
2003
Chronicles the life of Joseph Kennedy, discussing how his ruthless quest for money, power, and social status began in his early childhood and continued through the final days of his life, and how he influenced some of the twentieth-century's most powerful political figures.

Saving the lost tribe

the rescue and redemption of the Ethiopian Jews
2003
Chronicles Operation Solomon, in which fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews--the Falashas--were airlifted in May 1991 to Jerusalem by the Israeli air force to save them from their country's civil war.

Talyn

a novel of Korre
2005

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet and diplomat
1995
A biography of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, who became the representative voice of millions of people promoting social reform, using his poems to raise the world's political consciousness.

Pasaje a la libertad: la historia de Chiune Sugihara

[Passage to freedom. Spanish]
1999
A biography of Chiune Sugihara, who with his family's encouragement saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.

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