The Foreign Service Journal, November 2006

in the U.S. Senate was a decade-long process in which the author played a critical role as the chief negotiator for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Here he analyzes the complex strug- gles over U.S. INF deployments and allied negotiat- ing strategies, as well as handling confrontations with the Soviets, that ultimately produced a treaty widely recognized as a turning point in post-World War II history (see David Jones’ review, FSJ , June 2006). Maynard W. Glitman is a former ambassador to Belgium and deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO. Of the four ambassadorial posts he held, three were in arms-control activities. Following retirement from the Foreign Service, he has written on U.S. foreign policy and arms control and taught politi- cal science as an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont. At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb James E. Goodby, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, $24.95, paperback, 224 pages. “ At the Borderline of Arma- geddon recalls the fascinating and terrifying history of the nuclear age. James Goodby has written an extraordinary and engaging book that has much to teach leaders and ordinary citizens alike,” says former Rep. Lee Hamilton, president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission. Goodby zeroes in on the issues that American presidents have faced and how they dealt with them. He adds details that are not generally known or not available else- where in cases where he was directly involved — and that is a majority, because for 60 years from the Trinity test at Alamogordo, N.M., and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the author was closely in touch with nuclear policy at the national level. Retired Ambassador James Goodby is a non-resi- dent senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the course of a long and distin- guished Foreign Service career he held several senior positions dedicated to arms control and nonprolifera- tion. He served as ambassador to Finland from 1980 to 1981. Sisters in Arms: British & American Women Pilots during World War II Helena Page Schrader, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2006, $25.16, hardcover, 240 pages. During World War II, a small number of carefully selected women were given the unprece- dented opportunity to fly mili- tary aircraft in both the U.S. and Britain. That story, by itself, is fascinating. But Sisters in Arms: British & American Women Pilots during World War II also explores what happened next on each side of the Atlantic: while the women of the British Air Transport Auxiliary steadily won nearly all the privileges and sta- tus enjoyed by their male colleagues, their American counterparts of the Women Airforce Service Pilots were denied the same status, rank, pay and benefits as their male colleagues. Furthermore, the female pilots of the ATA — no less than their male colleagues — were praised for their contribution to the war effort, whereas the WASP was disbanded and the women sent home early, their contribution to the war publicly ignored and soon forgotten. What accounts for this dramatic difference? Helena Schrader analyzes the cultural context and military traditions, and traces the organizational devel- opment and accomplishments of both the ATA and the WASP. To the extent possible, she lets the women speak for themselves. Helena Schrader joined the Foreign Service in 2005. A historian specializing in ancient Sparta and the medieval age, she has published two novels set in Ancient Sparta, The Olympic Charioteer (iUniverse, 2005) and Are They Singing in Sparta? (iUniverse, 2006), as well as a novel based on the experience of the pilots, The Lady in the Spitfire , published earlier this year (see p. 76). Aristocrat and Proletarian: The Extraordinary Life of Paxton Pattison Hibben Stuart G. Hibben, Llumina Press, 2006, $29.95, hardcover, 252 pages. This is the story of Paxton Hibben, an American (and dis- tant relative of the author) who, despite the cold relations between 64 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 6