The Fog of War, Russia With Love, China Mission and Other Slices of Life: A Collection of Essays in a Memoir

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After a lifetime of reporting all over the world, after writing eight thrillers and one unusual cookbook, and after a stint as a university professor, I finally retired. But my muse grabbed hold of me once again and I have written a collection of essays that I hope the reader will savor as much as I savored living them and writing about them. THE FOG OF WAR tells of a traumatic situation in which I came within seconds of shooting and killing a man I believed to be a Vietcong assassin. ARMEGEDON OVER CUBA tells a first-person account of how close the United States came during the Cuban Missile Crisis to a full-scale nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. RUSSIA WITH LOVE relates how the Russians kept throwing beautiful young women at me in hopes of unmasking me as a CIA agent. CHINA MISSION tells how Chinese officials showed me a super-secret underground bomb shelter in Beijing as part of a clever ploy to open military-to-military talks with the United States. Join me in reliving 33 experiences of a lifetime.

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William Beecher spent 25 Years as a Washington Correspondent for the Boston Globe, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His writing awards include the Pulitzer prize. He served as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and as Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 10 years.