03538cam a2200745 4500 528972940 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640123526 1640123520 B07ZQWGLFC Amazon 833781c2-baed-4e03-bbef-90fc8ab18143 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5476943 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stein, Susan M. On Distant Service [Libby] : The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated. Potomac Books, 2020. international relations. Biography. War of Independence. Diplomacy. violent crime. National security. Middle East. Communism. Colombia. Iran. Turkey. Persia. october revolution. santa marta. spy. murder . Russia. Israel. Great War. Bolshevik. robbery. violence. Foreign Policy. World War I. Tehran . State Department. Black Sea. WW I. ambulance driver. political murder. violent death. Harris E Fudger. Robert Whitney Imbrie. William Palfrey. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2697kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie's loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career.<br /> <br /> Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in adventure and history. Imbrie rejected a legal career to volunteer as an ambulance driver during World War I and joined the State Department when the United States entered the war. Assigned to Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution, fled ahead of a Bolshevik arrest order, and continued to track communist activity in Turkey even as the country's war of independence unfolded around him. His fateful assignment to Persia led to his death at age forty-one and set off political repercussions that cloud relations between the United States and Iran to this day.<br /> Drawing on a wealth of untapped materials, <i>On Distant Service</i> returns readers to an era when dash and diplomacy went hand-in-hand.<br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=833781c2-baed-4e03-bbef-90fc8ab18143&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=833781c2-baed-4e03-bbef-90fc8ab18143&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=833781c2-baed-4e03-bbef-90fc8ab18143&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)