The Foreign Service Journal, November 2005

he Foreign Service Journal is pleased to present our annual Foreign Service authors roundup again, in plenty of time for holiday orders. Here is an annotated list of some of the volumes written or edited by Foreign Service personnel and family members, past and present, in 2004 and 2005. This year’s selection contains a substantial history section; a respectable fiction section, including some notable histor- ical fiction works; several books focusing on foreign-policy issues; a diverse array of works concerning people and places; N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 5 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 25 F O C U S O N F S A U T H O R S I N T HEIR O WN W RITE Mikkela Thompson T T HIS YEAR ’ S COMPILATION OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS BY F OREIGN S ERVICE - AFFILIATED AUTHORS FEATURES MEMOIRS , HISTORY , FICTION AND A LIVELY GROUPING OF WORKS ON PEOPLE AND PLACES .