My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat: A Conversation with Carl A. Bastiani

This volume reviews highlights of the author’s twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find of particular interest Bastiani’s account and analysis of developments while he was head of the U.S. consulate in Krakow before, during, and immediately after the imposition of martial law.