This is the story of the complex and often tormented relationship between the U.S. and China. It is for anyone concerned with the complicated and combative relationship between the world's biggest and the world's most powerful nations. Using original reporting from his years in China, interviews with presidents, secretaries of state, Chinese officials, and other key leaders, and 15,000 pages of newly declassified documents, Tyler illuminates a relationship usually shrouded insecrecy, miscommunication, rivalry, fascination, and fear.
This is the story of the complex and often tormented relationship between the U.S. and China. It is for anyone concerned with the complicated and comb...
A spellbinding narrative account of America in the Middle East that "reads almost like a thriller" (The Economist)
The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so--and as Patrick Tyler shows in A World of Trouble, a thrilling chronicle of American misadventures in the region. The story of American presidents' dealings there is one of mixed motives, skulduggery, deceit, and outright foolishness, as well as of...
A spellbinding narrative account of America in the Middle East that "reads almost like a thriller" (The Economist)
"Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy.
Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture--of Sparta presenting itself as Athens....
"Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel
