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Mao Tse-tung — The Unknown Story of How the Chairman led China to Communist Hell!

Preliminary Note: The article that follows is a review of Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. However, I have chosen to include this Preliminary Note before the formal review for reasons that will soon become apparent to the reader. This authoritative biography and history comes in a hefty tome illustrated with […]

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The Ten Greatest Adventurers in History

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Inspired by the incredible adventures of various historical figures and finally spurred on by the book, Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier (2007) by Charles Spencer, which I recently read and reviewed — I have compiled a brief list of arguably the ten most adventuresome characters of history. Adventuresome here requires an explanation: Audacity in more

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The Long March (1934-1936) and the forgotten saga of the Western Legion of the 4th Army — as recounted by survivors

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Sun Shuyan, author of The Long March: The True History of Communist China’s Founding Myth, was born in the 1960s, reared and schooled in communist China, as well as at Oxford, England, where she won a scholarship. Sun Shuyun is now a documentary filmmaker who “for the last decade divided her time between London and

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Prince Rupert of the Rhine — Warrior Prince and the Last Cavalier!

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Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier (2007) by British author Charles Spencer — journalist and former correspondent for NBC News, writer, broadcaster, and British peer 9th Earl Spencer and brother of the late Princess Diana, the former Princess of Wales — should be congratulated for writing this magnificent and comprehensive biography of Prince Rupert of the

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Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine — Tsarism or Stalinism anew?

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Just as I was beginning to warm up to Vladimir Putin and the new emerging “democracy” in the Russian Federation (which like a phoenix rose out of the ashes of the communist Soviet Union), the Russian President and his minions in the Ukraine invade the Crimean peninsula and threaten to foment a second cold war!

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Suleiman the Magnificent and His Time

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Suleiman the Magnificent: Scourge of Heaven by Antony Bridge is an engaging, but not exhaustive, narrative of the major events in the life and times of the great Ottoman Sultan Suleiman (r. 1520-1566). I was not disappointed in this book, which reads like a charming storybook. The tome is at times suspenseful, always informative, and

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Mao Tse-tung — The Unknown Story of How the Chairman led China to Communist Hell!

The Ten Greatest Adventurers in History

The Long March (1934-1936) and the forgotten saga of the Western Legion of the 4th Army — as recounted by survivors

Prince Rupert of the Rhine — Warrior Prince and the Last Cavalier!

Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine — Tsarism or Stalinism anew?

Suleiman the Magnificent and His Time

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