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George F. Kennan: Memoirs, 1950-1963 by George F Kennan, (George Frost), 1904- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is the personal and professional record of one of America's most distinguished diplomats, George F. Kennan. On his graduation from Princeton in 1925, moved perhaps by the example of his distant cousin George Kennan, who wrote the classic work on Siberia, the younger George prepared to enter the Foreign Service. After a short exposure to diplomacy in Germany and on the Baltic Coast, the young consul felt so inadequate that he was about to resign. His career was salvaged when the State Department registered him as a student of Russian at the University of Berlin, and here he began to acquire his knowledge of and insight into the Russian character which were to serve him so well. It has been Mr. Kennan's destiny to be posted repeatedly at the threshold of crises. His fluency in Russian make him an indispensable member of Ambassador Bullitt's small staff which reopened the American Embassy in Moscow in 1933. He was an observer at Stalin's famous purge trials. He was in Prague when the Germans took over Czechoslovakia. When Hitler declared war on the United States, Mr. Kennan was in Berlin and was interned for six months. He was Harriman's right-hand man in Moscow from 1944 to

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Author

George F Kennan, (George Frost), 1904-

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394716244

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.24 / 5 (181 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13