I finally finished reading What If?, a collection of alternate history essays. Each essay takes a single event in history and analyzes how things might look differently today had that event occurred in a different way. One of the more intriguing essays was about Cortez and his conquest of what is...
As the 100th anniversary of the Great War approaches, I thought I would test the waters and see what some recent historians had to say. In his highly informative, historical tome on the lead-up to the Great War, Fromkin not only dispels the simplistic view that the assassination of Archduke Ferdi...
يفترض في الكتاب أن يقدم صورة لـ"المؤامرة" التي حاكها الغرب- بريطانيا وفرنسا وروسيا- على العالم الإسلامي- ممثلا في الدولة العثمانية- ما يعني أنه سيكون موضوعيا، فهل سينجح؟ هل يمكننا أن نتخلص من تحيزاتنا ورؤيتنا الخاصة للأشياء؟ أم سنصل لنتيجة يقال معها أنه لا توجد موضوعية أبدا؟ سترينا الصفحات!«الحرب...
Early in the morning, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his consort, Sophie, prayed at mass in a chapel set up for them at their hotel. Leaving the suburban spa of Ilidze, they then boarded a train to Sarajevo, a trip of less than half an hour. At the railroad terminal on the outskirts of town, they t...
In January and February he restored and extended Jerusalem’s railway connections to the coast, so as to relieve his army’s dependence upon pack animals and ruined roads. He raided enemy forces to keep them off balance. Meanwhile he trained his raw Indian troops for the coming campaign...