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Russia and Reform
Russia and Reform – Bernard Pares Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable sketch of the rise and advance of Russia from the earliest times, Mr. Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently […]
Ukraine and its People
Ukraine and its People – Hugh P. Vowles The history of the Ukrainian people is largely a record of their exploitation, persecution, enserfment, and struggles for freedom. Here indeed is a people of whom it might well be said that: ‚They were tortured, they were stoned, they were sawn asunder; they were set wandering in […]
Ukraine – The Land and its People. An Introduction to its Geography
The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 – Elias Heifetz In fact, before the Russian aggression in 2022, the name Ukraine meant nothing at all to many of us. To dispel this ignorance concerning „the second largest Slavic nation,“ this little book was already written in 1910 by the famous geographer of […]
The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919
The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 – Elias Heifetz The Ukrainian pogroms of 1919 constitute a striking exhibition of mass savagery. Approximately 120,000 men, women and children were killed; whole villages were wiped out; the entire Jewish population of southern Russia was reduced to the brink of complete destruction. But Dr. […]
The World Crisis, Volume 2
The World Crisis, Volume 2 – Winston Churchill ‚The World Crisis‘ is Winston Churchill’s narrative of World War I, published in several volumes. Although nominally starting in 1911 when Churchill became head of the Admiralty, the first volume commences in 1870 with the Franco-Prussian War and ends with the events in Turkey and on the […]
The World Crisis, Volume 1
The World Crisis, Volume 1 – Winston Churchill ‚The World Crisis‘ is Winston Churchill’s narrative of World War I, published in several volumes. Although nominally starting in 1911 when Churchill became head of the Admiralty, the first volume commences in 1870 with the Franco-Prussian War and ends with the events in Turkey and on the […]
A Child’s History Of England
A Child’s History Of England – Charles Dickens A collection of Dickens‘ books would not be complete without this historical work for children which sometimes reads more like a fairytale. In his own very special writing the author runs the child through centuries and centuries of English history. A book that has been in the […]
The Conquest Of Granada
The Conquest Of Granada – Washington Irving In 1830 Irving published his “ Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada,“ one of the most delightful of his works, an exact history, for such it is admitted to be by those who have searched most carefully the ancient records of Spain, yet so full of personal incident, […]
The Truth About The Titanic
The Truth About The Titanic – Archibald Gracie The Truth About the Titanic‘, by Colonel Archibald Gracie, is a striking recital of the monumental shipwreck, by the sole survivor of all the men passengers, „stationed during the loading of six or more life-boats with women and children on the port side of the ship.“ The […]
A Short History of England
A Short History of England – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chesterton, in his unimitable way, remarks that “the only way to write a popular history is to write it backwards.” This is somewhat the method he employs in his book, “A Short History of England,“ in which he aims to show the importance of the populace […]