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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 […]
The Armies March
The Armies March – John Cudahy John Cudahy was an American diplomat who served in the years leading up to World War II as United States ambassador to Poland and Belgium, and as United States minister to Luxembourg and the Irish Free State. He was forced to leave his post in Luxembourg after Germany occupied […]
A Mission to Gelele
A Mission to Gelele – Richard Francis Burton „A Mission to Gelele“, the former King of Dahomey, which has taken place in the 1860s, describes with minuteness the rituals of Dahomeyan „customs,“ of which, before Captain Burton’s visit, tales had been spread mixed with wild exaggerations. Written in Burton’s lively style, it shows his powers […]
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 […]
The British Campaign in France and Flanders Volume 6
The British Campaign in France and Flanders Volume 6 – Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work has doubtless its place among the books dealing with The Great War, being built up from narratives, letters, diaries, and personal interviews, often with the help of the principal actors in the events narrated. It is dedicated […]
The British Campaign in France and Flanders Volume 5
The British Campaign in France and Flanders Volume 5 – Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work has doubtless its place among the books dealing with The Great War, being built up from narratives, letters, diaries, and personal interviews, often with the help of the principal actors in the events narrated. It is dedicated […]