New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... Chiang as far more complex, awful and brilliant than we had imagined. Hoover Institution Archives/Albert C. Wedemeyer PapersMadame Chiang Kai-shek with her husband, Roosevelt and Churchill in 1943. THE LAST EMPRESSMadame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern ChinaBy Hannah PakulaIllustrated. 787 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35 (November 4, 2009) (November 4, 2009)Pakula writes biographies...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Source: Adam Holland Blog (10-28-09) History News Network http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/119134.html General Wedemeyer James von Brunn, the neo-Nazi accused of killing security guard Stephen Johns in an attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, corresponded with and visited the home of General Albert C. Wedemeyer , a major figure in the U.S. military and in...
Adam Holland (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
James von Brunn, the neo-Nazi accused of killing security guard Stephen Johns in an attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, corresponded with and visited the home of General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a major figure in the U.S. military and in Republican politics during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Von Brunn's meeting with Wedemeyer took place in the spring of 1981...
