Guardians of the Grail
A Life of Diplomacy on the Edge
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Christopher Datta
About this listen
Chris Datta is a colleague, friend, and personal hero of mine. As a fellow foreign service officer, I've done some hard jobs, but nothing compared to Chris' service in the toughest, most dangerous places on earth.
Chris tells the story of one American FSO who believed in serving his country in very foreign lands. From the hilariously morbid bureaucracy of South India to the blood-soaked streets of Rwanda, to civil war in Liberia, and to the creation of a new country in South Sudan, this memoir should make us all shake our heads with wonder and pride at the sacrifices our diplomats make for America.
Thank you, Chris, for telling our story so well. Ambassador (Ret.) Tom Krajeski.
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Supplemented with referential information and culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year period - spanning Stone's first trip to Moscow to meet with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden to his most recent visit after the election of President Donald Trump - The Putin Interviews is based on what journalists, news organizations, and other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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A for Effort...but I nearly puked.
- By Godson Ugochukwu on 08-13-18
By: Oliver Stone
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The Berlin Wall
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse.
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- By Simone on 05-23-13
By: Frederick Taylor
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Saving Aziz
- How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban
- By: Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas - contributor, Glenn Beck
- Narrated by: Chad Robichaux, Glenn Beck
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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In Saving Aziz, Chad will give you a behind-the-scenes view of the evacuation efforts that saved thousands from the Taliban during the historic humanitarian crisis following the United States’ hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Blessed
- By Teri Herron on 02-01-23
By: Chad Robichaux, and others
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Israel
- A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
- By: Noa Tishby
- Narrated by: Noa Tishby
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone seems to have a strong opinion about Israel, how many people actually know the facts? Here to fill in the information gap is Israeli American Noa Tishby.
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I hope this book will help
- By Wayne on 05-08-21
By: Noa Tishby
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- By: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines. In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.
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#GetWoke #TakeAction
- By Jessie Bindy on 04-06-17
By: Edouard Kayihura, and others
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Cursed Victory
- Israel and the Occupied Territories; A History
- By: Ahron Bregman
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath—a military occupation of the Palestinian territories that is now well into its fifth decade. The audiobook provides a gripping and unvarnished chronicle of how what Israel promised would be an "enlightened occupation" quickly turned sour and the anguished diplomatic attempts to bring it to an end.
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Largely just the diplomatic history
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 09-28-15
By: Ahron Bregman
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.
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Very enlightening read
- By Massoud on 05-31-17
By: Tamim Ansary
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The Accidental Admiral
- A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
- By: ADM. James Stavridis USN - Ret.
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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After he was selected to be NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander, the New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "Renaissance admiral." A US Naval Academy graduate with a master's degree and doctorate from Tufts University, conversant in both French and Spanish, this author of numerous books and articles impressed the Navy's leaders and senior Pentagon civilians. The Accidental Admiral offers an intimate look at the challenges of directing NATO operations in Afghanistan, military intervention in Libya, and preparation for possible war in Syria.
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Insider View on Complexity in Nato
- By Theo Horesh on 05-16-22
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- Barry C Bryant
- 06-06-19
Interesting Life Story
Very interesting to hear from someone in the life of diplomacy. Good listen.
I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.
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- Shane Strickland
- 09-14-18
Better Than Expected
To be honest, this would probably not have been the most exciting read, but the narration makes all the difference. Its quite obvious the author has a sense of humor and is a little cynical and that really comes through in the narration. Having the author as the narrator helps in that regard. Some funny, and sometimes scary, stories of life in public service overseas, written and narrated by somewhat of a smarta**.
"This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."
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- Mark Twain "Eddie"
- 09-01-18
Excellent book!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
I've always been fascinated by the modern power brokering of international diplomacy. This is a great story about one man's work behind the scenes. His work in Liberia is especially interesting.
The narration is clear and easy to understand, and the narrator didn't get in the way of the story at all. All around, a well-told story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-05-19
Good book
Really interesting book about the author's diplomatic work around the world. Gave good insight into dictators and governance of some 3rd world countries. Only downside was author's pontifications on religion which he clearly has no understanding of or expertise in. Other than that, would recommend.
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- KD
- 09-06-18
Didn’t know what I was in for with the cover
The cover is pretty bad all tings being said. But the story was interesting and kept me engage the way through
Basically about narrators experience as a diplomat in the state department
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- LEE
- 08-29-18
Unique and insightful new memoir
For those who love listening to memoirs and biographies, this one is special. Amazon is teaming with foreign service officer memoirs, but not Audible. Guardians of the Grail is the only one I found.
Datta tells about interesting times in Lebanon, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Dakar, Liberia and more. Some of it isn't for the squeamish, to be honest. But some parts are.
It was interesting for me to hear his explanations for how things worked on the ground, the unanticipated crises that revealed positions and concerns of interested parties. One has to be astute in this type of work, not to mention being able to operate in stressful environments.
His narration is good enough. He held my attention throughout, and his performance added insight.
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- grannynanny
- 04-25-24
What a ride!
I loved every minute of Chris’ story! He is a great storyteller and took me along with him. I am a world traveler and he made me want to join the diplomatic corps. I want to have a drink at Patty’s in Sierra Leone.
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