The Foreign Service Journal, November 2008

Sparta? (iUniverse, 2006) and Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen: A Tale of Four Women in Sparta , published this year (see p. 35). Hell’s Angels Newsletter: The Final Six Years — A World War II Retrospective Eddie Deerfield, Rose Printing Co, 2007, $50.00, hardcover, 560 pages. With this volume, Hell’s Angels Newsletters: A World War II Retrospective , Eddie Deerfield makes a new contribution to the annals of military history. It is a fol- low-up to Hell’s Angels Newsletter Silver Anniversary Collection — A World War II Retrospective , published in 2002, and completes the collection. This volume covers the 303rd Bomb Group’s role in World War II from 1942 to 1945. From aerial combat missions, escapes and evasions to prisoners of war, the collection is a fascinating memorial to a significant moment in U.S. military history. Of the 900-copy print run, 750 were presented as gifts to 303rd Bomb Group veterans or purchased by family members. The remaining copies were donated to universities and col- leges, U.S. Air Force bases and military museums, among other institutions. Deerfield was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart for his service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he flew 30 combat missions over Europe during World War II as a B17 radio operator/gunner in the 303rd Bomb Group. A retired FSO with USIA, Eddie Deerfield was president of the 303rd Bomb Group Association. During his more than 20-year diplomatic career, he served in India, Pakistan, Canada, Malawi, Uganda and Nigeria. He retired in 1988. He is a former chairman of the Florida Chapter of the Foreign Service Retirees Association. Memoirs Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey Yale Richmond, Berghahn Books, 2008, $29.95, hardcover, 190 pages. As a young intern fresh out of Syracuse University, Yale Richmond arrived in Berlin in August 1947 and began an international affairs career that would span three decades and take him into the trenches of the Cold War. This informative memoir is focused on public diplomacy strategy in sev- eral communist countries. The author outlines the work he was involved in and witnessed, from running exchange programs in Germany and producing a Lao-language edition of USIA’s monthly photo maga- zine in Vientiane to opening an American library in Poland and assessing the effect of rock ‘n’ roll in Moscow. Part history, part memoir, the book takes readers into the heart of key Cold War hot spots and demon- strates the power of public diplomacy. “The author was involved in this subject more directly and over a longer period of time than any other U.S. government offi- cial,” says Wilson Dizard, who wrote Inventing Public Diplomacy . That is a fitting credential for this engag- ing “Cold War odyssey” whose message is still perti- nent today as anti-American sentiment rises. (See the July-August FSJ for a full review.) Yale Richmond is a retired FSO who practiced cul- tural diplomacy for 30 years, including postings abroad in Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria and the Soviet Union. A specialist in intercultural communication, his books have been translated and published in China and Korea. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy series. The Making of a Pacific Citizen Hugh L. Burleson II, AuthorHouse, 2007, $17.00, paperback, 421 pages. By the time Hugh Burleson began working at USIA in 1960, he already spoke and read Japan- ese, had a Japanese wife and a Japanese car, and had lived in Japan for five years — prompting the personnel officer processing his application to ask, “Do you really know which country you represent?” In fact, Burleson has spent his entire career representing the U.S., but always being oriented toward Asia. Here he takes readers along on his journey in cross-cultural living. This lively memoir traces Burleson’s life from a young, small-town California boyhood to a long career in U.S-Asian relations that sent him to Japan, Vietnam, 26 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 8