Provides historical information for travelers about China, covering a period that ranges from prehistory through the twentieth century; focusing on those factors that have impacted the sites and monuments of the country. Includes a chronology, maps, and illustrations.

Provides background information for travelers about Ireland, covering a period that ranges from prehistory through the twentieth century and focusing on those factors that have effected the sites and monuments of the country. Includes a chronology, maps, illustrations, and historical gazetteer.

Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.

A collection of some six hundred vignettes in which the author draws from the entire span of human history to look at episodes from the perspectives of the unseen, unheard, and forgotten.

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

Recounts, through interviews with refugees, the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Russia.

An overview of the war and tragedy in former Yugoslavia.

Over 200 photos with captions and text tell the story of communism and the birth of the Soviet Union.