Embassies in crisis : diplomacy, communities, and conflicts / Martin Thomas -- The British embassy in Paris and the fall of France / Rogelia Pastor-Castro -- 'Abassador brawls with minister' : emotions and internal and external crisis at the French embassy to the Holy See / Karine Varley -- Keeping the flag flying : John Reeves and the British consulate in Macao, 1914-45 / Richard Smith -- Austrian diplomatic missions in crisis : from 1938 to the Cold War / David Schriffl -- The Mindszenty affair and the United States embassy in Budapest / Mary Heimann -- British high commissioners in India and Pakistan, and the Kashmir conflict, 1947-49 / Rakesh Ankit -- Crisis at the creation : the establishment of the first US embassy in Israel, 1947-49 / Lorena De Vita -- The US embassy in Saigon and the Dien Bien Phu crisis, 1954 / Alex Ferguson -- Hook, line and sinker : the British embassy in Cairo and Egypt's 'expulsion of Soviet advisors,' 1972 / Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez -- Eyes off the prize? The British embassy in Tehran, 1976-79 / Alastair Noble -- Crisis response in a twenty-first-century British embassy : Ukraine 2013-14 / Simon Smith -- Embassies responding to crisis : a practitioner's perspective / Jane Marriott.