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Into Siberia

George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

By: Gregory J. Wallance

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Into Siberia

George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

By: Gregory J. Wallance

In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia to delve into horror without succumbing to despair." — The New York Times Book Review In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance’s Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man’s harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history’s most heinous human rights abuses. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers’ arms. Kennan came to call the exiles’ experience in Siberia a “perfect hell of misery.” After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250280060

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9781250280060

America's Soul in Balance

The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

By: Gregory Wallance

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America's Soul in Balance

The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

By: Gregory Wallance

After America entered World War II, a genuine opportunity arose to save at least 70,000 Romanian Jews who had been deported to the killing fields of Transnistria. This title presents the true story of the senior officials of the US State Department at the height of World War II, whom some accused of being accomplices of Hitler.

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345

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1608322947

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9781608322947

The Woman Who Fought an Empire

Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

By: Gregory J. Wallance

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The Woman Who Fought an Empire

Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

By: Gregory J. Wallance

Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization's leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640120041

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9781640120044

The Woman Who Fought an Empire

Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

By: Gregory J. Wallance

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Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

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America's Soul in the Balance

The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

By: Gregory Wallance

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The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

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The chilling true story of the senior officials of the U.S. State Department at the height of World War II, whom some accused of being "accomplices of Hitler". A largely forgotten chapter of American history. After America entered World War II, a genuine opportunity arose to save at least 70,000 Romanian Jews who had been deported to the killing fields of Transnistria. America did not intervene. Treasury Department lawyers believed that the State Department was not simply guilty of a failure to act but also of deliberately suppressing reports of the vast slaughter in occupied Europe and blocking efforts to rescue Jews. America's Soul in the Balance is an exploration of the truth behind that accusation, and of the dispute that ensued. Meticulous research that reads like a suspense novel. Though the book contains nearly five hundred endnotes, Greg Wallance explores this titanic bureaucratic battle in prose that reads like an engrossing novel. The drama is high as Treasury Department lawyers, tough-minded New Dealers from middle-class backgrounds, fought with the diplomats in the State Department, whose elitism isolated them from the suffering of human beings different from themselves. Plenty of applications for our modern world. Wallance draws parallels from this cautionary tale for current world leaders as they weigh the costs of intervention against genocidal madness and the consequences of not acting. Quoting from the Talmud, he reminds them that "To save one life is as if you have saved the world".

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Greenleaf Book Group Llc

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1608322939

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9781608322930

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Into Siberia

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