One of the great debates in the history of WWII is how Hitler took power in Germany and how many Germans knew and supported Hitler’s mass murder of political opponents, Jews, Poles, Roma, and “defectives.”
In 28 short, easy-to-read chapters, each a free-standing essay, Evans unpacks this debate with magisterial detail about Germans before, during, and after WWII.
In this fascinating and enlightening collection of essays, one of the most important historians of our time reflects on the ways our understanding of Nazi Germany have been transformed in the twenty-first century. Richard Evans examines new historical perspectives on the Third Reich, such as showing how it is increasingly viewed in a broader international - even global - context, as part of the age of imperialism. He investigates how Nazi policies in Europe drew on Hitler's image of the American colonisation of the Great Plains, how companies like Volkswagen and Krupp operated on a global scale and - perhaps…
Devine helped me understand why Putin is committed to subjugating or destroying Ukraine. In a nutshell, it is because he and many Russians felt humiliated by the U.S. expansion of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union.
From his long CIA career, Devine tells excellent stories of Russian and U.S spies from the Cold War to the present. He provides new insight into the motivations of two of Russia’s most successful spies against the U.S.—Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
In Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression legendary former spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country's intelligence and counterintelligence posture against Russia, among other adversaries. Spymasters are not spies - their mission is to run and handle spies and spy networks. They exist in virtually all sophisticated intelligence services around the world, including the more high-profile services like the CIA, SVR, SIS, MSS, VAJA and Mossad. Without exception, these spymasters are highly trained and broadly experienced top-level government officials who are at the heart of the intelligence business. They make the life and death decisions.…
A friend who flew with Naekel lent me this book. It reads like a diary. The author is not a stylist, but the story of the Laos-based air war against North Vietnam was news to me.
The Mohawks of the title were the two-engine turboprop Grumman OV-1 Mohawk that provided both observation (radar pod) and strike (missiles) capacities. Naekel describes the experience of the ARMY pilots of these aircraft, who deserve a place in history.
To my knowledge, this was the last fixed-wing aircraft the Army developed with attack capabilities. Since then, the USAF has jealously guarded its monopoly of combat aircraft, forcing the Army into helicopter gunships that are more vulnerable than the Mohawks were.
The true stories of about 500 of my single-pilot combat flights, almost all of them in Laos and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. I spent 22-1/2 months flying in the CIA's setup Mohawk unit with the armed OV-1 Mohawks - until my timing and luck all ran out at the same time and I was medevac'd to the Air Force hospital at Clark AFB in the Philippines and then a series of Air Force and Army hospitals.
In 1964 the CIA setup the 20th ASTA (later the 131st Aviation Company) and made it a MACV asset, outside of the…
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked, "Why do they hate us?."
The President echoed the confusion, anger, and fear felt by millions of Americans while also creating a politicized discourse that has come to characterize and obscure discussions of both phenomena in the media.
As experts in the psychology of radicalization, Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and the mass public from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence.
