On Distant Service: The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated
On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. Foreign Service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie&;s loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career. Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in adventure and history. Imbrie rejected a legal career to volunteer as an ambulance driver during World War I and joined the State Department when the United States entered the war. Assigned to Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution, fled ahead of a Bolshevik arrest order, and continued to track communist activity in Turkey even as the country&;s war of independence unfolded around him. His fateful assignment to Persia led to his death at age forty-one and set off political repercussions that cloud relations between the United States and Iran to this day. Drawing on a wealth of untapped materials, On Distant Service returns readers to an era when dash and diplomacy went hand-in-hand.
yazar | Susan M. Stein |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 17.27 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 1 Temmuz 2020 |
1 Temmuz 2020 United States Congress Babadada Gmbh 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm Collectif 3 Ocak 2017 20,3 x 0,6 x 25,4 cm 31 Ağustos 2012 28 Şubat 2018 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm 17.78 x 0.61 x 25.4 cm Icon Group International 4 Ocak 2017 5 Ocak 2017 Kolektif HardPress Publishing 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 14.81 x 0.48 x 21.01 cm
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yazar | Susan M. Stein |
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isbn 13 | 978-1640121942 |
Yayımcı | POTOMAC BOOKS INC |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 17.27 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı On Distant Service: The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated | 1 Temmuz 2020 |
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