The Foreign Service Journal, November 2020

50 NOVEMBER 2020 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL of his Depression-era childhood as the eleventh of 14 children growing up in rural Georgia. While most of Addleton’s siblings received a grade-school education before finding work in the nearby cotton mills, Hubert finished high school, attended seminary and spent more than three decades as a Baptist missionary in Pakistan. As one of the few foreigners to speak the local language fluently, he translated religious manuscripts and co-authored a Sindhi-language course. In addition to describing his childhood, the memoir includes thumbnail sketches of Addleton’s parents, as well as his 13 brothers and sisters. It also reflects on several momentous events in his life, such as answering the call to missionary service, meeting the love of his life and embarking on a five-week journey fromNew York to Karachi on a freighter in the summer of 1956, accompanied by his wife and first child. Two more children were born during Addleton’s time abroad, including his second son, Jonathan—who as a career Foreign Service officer would return to Pakistan as USAIDmission director and later serve as U.S. ambassador to Mongolia. Not Exactly a Company Man: Notes fromHalf a Life in the U.S. Foreign Service With a Personal Account of the 1992-1995 U.S. Bosnia Policy Debacle Ron Neitzke, Xlibris, 2019, $23.99/paperback, e-book available, 400 pages. In this memoir, Ron Neitzke takes read- ers into the environment at the State Department and in Washington, D.C., during the conflicts that engulfed the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. As intractable differences among the various ethnicities exploded into violence, Washington was initially adamant about remaining aloof and detached from the budding crisis. According to Neitzke, Secretary of State James Baker’s insistence on “balanced reporting” that focused on Croatian excesses as well as Serbian atrocities paralyzed decision-making, created rifts between senior policymakers and lower echelons and led to a de facto policy of abstention. He is no less scathing when it comes to the Clinton team’s handling of the problem: “sloppy and amateurish scarcely does it justice.” Not Exactly A Company Man is an unvarnished insider account of the decision-making (or indecision-making) at the highest levels of power in Washington. Whether in the halls of the seventh floor of the State Department or in National Security Council meetings, Neitzke provides invaluable insight into the moment-to-moment dynamics of howWashington handled one of the most convoluted diplomatic and humanitarian crises in recent memory. Ron Neitzke retired from the State Department after nearly 28 years in the Foreign Service to become a full-time father to his three young children, an occasional community rabble- rouser and a manic supporter of the Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball team. He lives with his wife, Jean, herself a former FSO, in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It’s the Pilgrimage, Not the Hike Julie Gianelloni Connor, Bayou City Press, 2019, $17.99/paperback, e-book available, 276 pages. In 2016, Julie Gianelloni Connor made the 500-mile trek from Jean- Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, joining the more than 300,000 people annually who undertake the pilgrimage. Savoring the Camino de Santiago is a memoir of her journey and the process of how she decided to make the trek, as well as a practical guide to the Camino for those interested in experiencing the journey themselves. While most people walk the route, Connor believes taking buses, taxis or even driving are also valid ways to experience the Camino. She recommends that pilgrims slow down and savor the pilgrimage by visiting churches, museums and interesting towns along the route. She urges people to “take the trip in the manner that will most connect themwith their spiritual, religious and transcendent wellsprings.” After finishing the Camino, Connor traveled to Madrid and Toledo, and Savoring the Camino de Santiago has chapters covering those visits. She also recounts a thank-you dinner she hosted in her hometown of Houston for those who helped her organize her pilgrimage. In her 33-year career with the U.S. Information Agency and the State Department, Julie Gianelloni Connor rose to the Senior Foreign Service. After retiring, she founded Bayou City Press in Houston, which focuses on Houston, travel and international affairs. She is a former member of the FSJ Editorial Board.