For my book report, I read “The Cardinal of the Kremlin” by Tom Clancy. Clancy is one of my favorite authors and I have read several of his other books such as: “The Hunt for Red October”, “The Sum of All Fears”, and my personal favorite “Rainbow Six”. “The Cardinal of the Kremlin” was a fiction book, but more specifically a techno-thriller. This book is perfect for people who are interested in the Cold War, military intelligence, or just want a really good book to read. I read a lot of other similar books, and they are possibly my favorite type of book. The cover of my book had what looked to be a satellite on the cover. Before I read the book I obviously didn’t know the purpose of it, so it kind of pushed me to read more of it, because I wanted to know what it was/did. …show more content…
Colonel Filitov, Nikolay Gerasimov, and Colonel Golovko were some of the other main characters from the Soviet side. There were definitely good and bad characters, most of the Russians were bad but Filitov was good because he gave info on Soviet projects to the Americans. The main idea of the book was the race between the Americans and Soviets to build a Space Missile Defense program. One of the things I learned from the book was just how serious and dangerous it was to be committing treason to your country, especially when you’re giving info to the enemies. One of the main things I loved about the book was the intelligence and counter-intelligence that both countries were doing to each other. There was one quote that I really liked in the book and it was “Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.” The quote basically said that there wasn’t a lot to get excited about in the Soviet Union, but they loved hockey so much so at least they had
Personal Response-I thought the book I am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard Wasdin was very good and intense. The book was about a Seal Team Six Warrior named Howard Wasdin. It told how courageous Howard Wasdin had to be to survive being a Navy Seal.
The book Bomb by Steve Sheinkin is about the former spies working For the Soviet union and spies working for America. The book first starts out with a boy named Harry gold he lives with his family and is backed up on the dept. And his friend helps him find a job at an soap factory and the Soviet spies work there. Harry gold is a college student at the University of california and wonders what would happen if you put uranium with atoms so he does experiments and wonders if it could be used for atomic bombs so then he figures out that it could be used for bombs he started going around the campus telling everyone and and the students on the campus of the University of california could be working for the soviets. The Soviet union figures out
War. Author Michael Shaara does an excellent job of showing the bravery and valor of
The book I read is called Silent Warrior. It's a biography about the famous marine sniper, Carlos Hathcock. The book takes you from his death bed to the death field in Vietnam, where he earner his title as the best of the best. His 93 confirmed kills and hundreds more unaccounted made him the number one sniper in our history. The book brought out the best of the man that everyone knew as Gunny Hathcock.
The next character I will mention is Honorable Gilbert MacWhite, who replaced Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan. This character functioned in complete contrast to Sears. He understood the sensitivity of the US mission in Sarkhan and how vulnerable the Sarkhanese government was to potential communist influences. He also understood the communist threat and did not underestimate it. MacWhite’s understanding of the operational environment was clear from the beginning and made constant efforts in understanding the people of Sarkhan.
“The Spy who came in from the cold” is a novel that can many individual who are curious what it was to be like a cold war or a war period a satisfying picture of what it was like. It show you the good and the bad of being in war, it also shows some sacrifices one who have to make during the time of war. Even though Leama had time to see a female he knew he couldn’t purse their relationship because of the danger she would be in. Leama worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service for about 10 years (1950s-1960s). Le Carre’ being a former MI-6 officer, provides a precious outlook for his story-telling. The fact that Carre actually experience what he did made the novel that much better. Newsweek stated “Le Carres is simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster” which is a pretty big accomplishment. I personally enjoy the
I would rate this chapter of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection at an 8/10. I really liked how the authors analyzed Brown’s letter to Harry Stearns and connected that to his motivations and character as an adult. I am leaving off two points because I feel that the article could have at least mentioned what the rest of the U.S. government or other countries thought of this incident. Overall, this was an interesting chapter to read and gave me a new understanding of what is required to properly research and analyze a historical figure in order to support one’s
Prados, John. Safe for Democracy The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago, IL: Ivan R Dee, Publisher, 2006.
Sulick, Michael J.. Spying in America espionage from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Cold War., Georgetown University Press, 2012
Under a backdrop of systematic fear and terror, the Stalinist juggernaut flourished. Stalin’s purges, otherwise known as the “Great Terror”, grew from his obsession and desire for sole dictatorship, marking a period of extreme persecution and oppression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. “The purges did not merely remove potential enemies. They also raised up a new ruling elite which Stalin had reason to think he would find more dependable.” (Historian David Christian, 1994). While Stalin purged virtually all his potential enemies, he not only profited from removing his long-term opponents, but in doing so, also caused fear in future ones. This created a party that had virtually no opposition, a new ruling elite that would be unstoppable, and in turn negatively impacted a range of sections such as the Communist Party, the people of Russia and the progress in the Soviet community, as well as the military in late 1930 Soviet society.
3) Field, Daniel. Rebels in the Name of the Tsar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976
Enlightened absolutism is a form of absolute monarchy inspired by the Enlightenment. During the 18th century, the Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that spread across Europe and beyond. The thinkers of the Enlightenment, known as philosophes, introduced ideas from the advances in science to change the way that people thought about government and society. Philosophes wanted to replace superstition, tyranny, and injustice with reason, tolerance, and legal equality. Many rulers in Europe and Russia used certain ideals of enlightened absolutism to govern their people and state. Although rulers agreed to some aspects of the ideals they were not true believers of the reforms. To maintain their power, they convinced society that they were
When choosing an author for my paper, I chose international suspense because I am very interested in foreign relations and the technology of modern day war. I have read stories by Edgar Allen Poe, with suspense and vivid imagery, which reminded me of Clancy's work. I decided to choose Tom Clancy because of his talent to weave such realistic tales of international suspense. Clancy creates the scenes in his books with such detail, it makes the reader feel like he/she is there. My first choice for this paper was Dr. Suess, but because he has passed away, I had to keep looking. I knew very little information about my author before writing this paper. I had read two of his books, but had no real knowledge of his personal life or past history. Tom Clancy, a successful American author of international suspense, has captured his love of military and technology and profitably employed it in the books he writes.
... source but it was valuable in my research in its own way. It helped me learn about the Cold War from a basic standpoint. I was able to learn about the entire structure from the military to politics and social impact. Communism in general is discussed thoroughly in this book and how that shaped the Cold War.