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Ninety years ago America entered the First World War on the side of England, France and Russia. By that time the Germans were defeating the Russians.

Chekhov was the son of a liberated Russian serf who mirrored in his writing the world of the rising bourgeoisie in pre-revolutionary Russia. The times were tumultuous and the political issues were...

White Russia was separated from Muscovite Russia for centuries. Living under the Lithuanians and the Poles, it developed its own national identity....

Mussolini began as a socialist. But the First World War transformed him. He became a leader of disgruntled veterans and a champion of military discipline.

Norman Mailer has always been outrageous. His perspective on people and events is unique and provocative. What could be more provocative than to try to ‘understand’ Adolph Hitler in a work of fiction.

In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict with extreme passion on both sides. Had the Loyalists defeated the Franco Rebels the Second World War might have been avoided.

Without the Dutch something important would be missing from America.

Without the Etruscans there would have been no Rome or Roman Empire. Their advanced culture lies at the foundation of Roman achievement. A fierce debate raged for many years about their origins.

The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.

The word ‘Gothic’ is everywhere. But few people realize that the Goths were a powerful Teutonic nation who occupied large areas of Central and Eastern Europe.

Born in Lithuania and educated in England, Berlin sought to understand the essence of the British society he admired.

In the face of Spanish Catholic success the English Protestants were determined to create their own English empire in North America.

The massive Japanese attack on China was the real beginning of the Second World War. The Japanese aimed to become the hegemonic power in East Asia, reversing centuries of Chinese domination.

Mustapha Kemal was his real name. Kemal Atatürk was his revolutionary title. A soldier of the Ottoman Empire, he had joined the Young Turks in their attempt to rescue a dying kingdom.

Since the First World War millions of Muslims have immigrated to Latin America. Brazil and Argentinna have been their chief destinations.

Twenty years of civil war have ended. But the devastation, poverty, hatred and bitter memories remain.....

Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.

The French Revolution overthrew the ruling classes of France and went to war with the rest of Europe.

France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...

The war in Chechnya revealed the bitter hatred between the Russians and the Muslim under Russian Control. While 15 major nations, many Muslim, separate from Russia....

At one time the Phoenicians controlled the Mediterranean through the power of their commerce and colonies. In the Bible the Phoenicians are called Canaanites.

Shortly after the creation of Virginia, another group of settlers made their way to the place English cod fisherman called New England.

While the English were trying to establish their own empire, their French enemies were trying to do the same. Samuel Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence and founded Quebec...

Mozart had many problems. His genius, his infantile personality, his problematic marriage and his jealous rivals all created obstacles to his full success.