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In 1964, nine members of the Ledyard Canoe Club at Dartmouth
College canoed the 1500 mile length of the Danube River from
Germany to the Black Sea. The three month journey took them through
eight countries, six of which were Communist ruled behind the Iron
Curtain. Their adventure became a cover story in the National
Geographic Magazine (July 1965)
The famed General Erwin Rommel served as a First Lieutenant in the
elite Wurttemberg Regiment during World War I. His war experiences
in Romania during 1916-1917 are recounted from his detailed
memoirs, unpublished original archival material and other sources.
The Plevna Battle of 1877 is described through first person
accounts. Fighters, military leaders, war correspondents provide a
composite description of an epic event that marked the end of
Ottoman rule over its European territories. The stories told are at
once: shocking / historic / dramatic
Mircea Malitza, a career diplomat from Romania, witnessed and
participated in major events during the entire Cold War period. An
engaging personality, he earned respect from world leaders in the
United States, Western Europe and emerging post-colonial countries.
This account is noteworthy for its rare insights into a duality not
always apparent when seen through the Cold War lens of Western
eyes. There is, on the one hand, the subservience of Romania, and
the entire Soviet Bloc, to Russia's dogmas and imperial
aspirations. On the other hand, Romania's leaders crafted their own
national 'independent path, ' often in highly creative and
potentially dangerous ways. This served Romania well in opening
doors to favorable Western contact, culminating, during the
mid-1960s, in a period of 'liberalization' of internal and foreign
policies. In time, though, these achievements were undermined by
Nicolae Ceausescu's increasingly dictatorial and cruel slide into a
moral and economic abyss. In these memoirs, Ambassador Malitza's
recollections of the Cuban Missile Crisis are illuminating: he
provides unique eye witness testimony to both the public posturing
and tense behind-the-scenes diplomacy as the world was taken to the
brink of nuclear war - he is the sole surviving member of the UN
Security Council of that time. Revealing, too, are Malitza's
accounts of the dramatic day-by-day events and secret conspiracies
of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968-and how Romania avoided a
similar fate. The author reveals his encounters and professional
friendships with world leaders. Private conversations with Averell
Harriman - America's master diplomat with unique insights into
Russia's policies - are unexpected. So, too, is the relationship
with UN Secretary General U-Thant. A unique memoir written in a
lively voice, and translated for this edition with great
sensitivity to nuance and subtle humor, this book should please
both the casual reader and the specialist.
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