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Drawing on his own experience as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Kissinger examines the careers of statesmen including Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt, contrasting the European balance-of-power tradition and raison d'etat with the American strain of idealism rooted in self-determination and collective security.\n\nThe book covers the run-up to both World Wars, the Paris Peace Conference, the interwar years, and the Cold War standoffs between the United States and the Soviet Union, including his own role in the opening to China and detente with Moscow. 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Adam Hochschild follows the war's generals and volunteers alongside its conscientious objectors and pacifists, many of whom were jailed for their opposition, tracing how the conflict split families and friendships: a leading pacifist campaigner had a brother commanding troops on the Western Front, and two well-known sisters ended up publishing newspapers attacking each other over the war. Hochschild uses these intertwined lives to examine competing loyalties — to country, to military duty, and to the idea of international solidarity — and to give weight to the war's dissenters alongside its more familiar heroes.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nw81xddsn1n02f4pkfjc0.jpg?v=ca41838054","LHONB[D%x]~q00D%IV%N9Z%Me.IU",2011,448,[840],{"id":841,"slug":842,"name":843},"01kjv3f6wcwjspwp76r6v8x5ef","adam-hochschild-uomk","Adam Hochschild",[845,846,847,848,849,850],{"id":167,"name":168,"slug":169,"is_fiction":19},{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":18},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":18},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":18},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":296,"name":297,"slug":298,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":127,"complexity":7,"audience":129,"mood":853,"themes":854,"setting_period":7,"summary":855,"content_warnings":7},[131,132,133],[],"A history of World War I in Britain, told through the war's generals and volunteers alongside the pacifists and conscientious objectors who opposed it — and paid for that opposition with prison time.",{"key":857,"params":858,"works":859},"genre",{"genre":42},[860,885,916,944,981,1001],{"id":861,"slug":862,"title":863,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":864,"cover_blurhash":865,"first_publish_year":866,"community_rating_avg":724,"community_rating_count":535,"page_count":867,"authors":868,"genres":873,"series":880,"enrichment":881},"01kx6n8v995q100844s3eemdqh","1066-xynm","1066","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx6n8v995q100844s3eemdqh.jpg?v=7b8d32a1fa","LTD]MHRjRPfQ~URkWBj[tPR*kCof",1978,208,[869],{"id":870,"slug":871,"name":872},"01kx6n8v9kw24m0zc3eby4hpvk","david-howarth-5uep","David Howarth",[874,878,879],{"id":875,"name":876,"slug":877,"is_fiction":19},56,"Medieval","medieval",{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":18},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":229,"complexity":7,"audience":129,"mood":882,"themes":883,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[131,133],[884,566],"multiple-povs",{"id":886,"slug":887,"title":888,"description":889,"primary_cover_url":890,"cover_blurhash":891,"first_publish_year":892,"community_rating_avg":724,"community_rating_count":535,"page_count":893,"authors":894,"genres":903,"series":907,"enrichment":913},"01kx6p3syda9a0h8t0kkhmmvwd","killing-the-ss-cnfv","Killing the SS","Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the \"Angel of Death\" who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel \"Butcher of Lyon\"; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann. Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled \"Nazi hunters.\" This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death. Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader. 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Gerecke was fifty when he enlisted, tending wounded and dying soldiers near London before being assigned, after the war, to the twenty-one Nazi officials awaiting trial for war crimes. Based on archival research and interviews with surviving participants, the book follows Gerecke inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice and the cells of the accused as he builds a working relationship with Hermann Göring, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and others, through the trial and its verdicts. It examines the moral and theological questions the assignment raised for Gerecke and for the men he served.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7gr20y6px7ys327t9f6vq5.jpg?v=b7194986e5","LxKwqQbHofaz~pofs:j[M{oLoLoe",2014,402,[926],{"id":927,"slug":928,"name":929},"01kx7gr20h03pfh6mxrc2f5085","tim-townsend-zgrq","Tim Townsend",[931,932,933,934,935],{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":18},{"id":41,"name":42,"slug":43,"is_fiction":18},{"id":217,"name":218,"slug":219,"is_fiction":18},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":18},{"id":936,"name":937,"slug":938,"is_fiction":18},107,"Christianity","christianity",[],{"pace":127,"complexity":7,"audience":129,"mood":941,"themes":942,"setting_period":7,"summary":943,"content_warnings":7},[132,190,133,191],[],"The story of Henry Gerecke, a Lutheran Army chaplain assigned to minister to the twenty-one Nazi leaders imprisoned at Nuremberg awaiting trial. 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