Part Three: THE BALKANS GAIN 12. MIDWINTER BREAK By the end of January 1919, the main outlines of the peace settlement were emerging. The Russian question, the League of Nations and the new borders in central Europe had all come up, even if they had not been completely settled. Progress had been…
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The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster SPECIAL TASKS: PAVEL SUDOPLATOV and Anatoli Sudoplatov Foreword byRobert CONQUEST Publish date 1994, Little, Brown
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In the middle of the twentieth century Japan will meet Europe on the plains of Asia and wrest from her the mastery of the world. Count Okuma (1915) You thieves who oppress and injure the poor, how great boldness you have!… Have you not come to pull the whiskers of a tiger? Juan the Fifth, in Pearl…
Пентагонските документи SECRETS Part II 14 Campaign ‘68 *** Meanwhile the bombing was still going on heavily in the North up to the nineteenth parallel. On August 1 it was reported that American planes had dropped 2,581,876 tons of bomb and rockets in Indochina since 1965. That was 1 million ton…
Chapter III BATTLES AND DIPLOMACY DURING THE WAR The Danubian Front in 1853 …However, on 6 October 1853, Paskevich recommended to Nikolai that he take a defensive position without crossing the Danube. Then, in contradiction to this defensive posture, he added that Russia had a powerful weapon…
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THE CHRONOGRAPHIA OF MICHAEL PSELLOS A.D. 976 – 1077 Книга IV МИХАИЛ ЧЕТВРТИ – 1034-1041 The Emperor’s Bulgarian Expedition 43. This thought afflicted the emperor much more than physical suffering, and the harm it produced in him was quite different, for whereas the disease caused his body to…
... In his diet, also, he was most temperate, as appears, omitting many other circumstances, by what he said to Ada, whom he adopted, with the title of mother, and afterwards created Queen of Caria. For when she, out of kindness, sent him every day many curious dishes and sweetmeats, and would have…
One THE MITROKHIN ARCHIVE …On October 11, 1991, the State Council of the disintegrating Soviet Union abolished the KGB in its existing form. The former FCD was reconstituted as the SVR, the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation, independent of the internal security service. Instead…
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CHAPTER III England … Colonies . – Treitschke’s greatest grievance was that the England possessed so many colonies which she had “acquired by theft, robbery and treachery”, which she is utterly “unable to govern satisfactorily”. His attitude may be summed up in a Cramb’s words: “How is the…
I. БАШТИНА НА ВОЈНАТА The Legacy of War “This was no slow decadence that came to the Europeanized world – other civilizations rolled and crumbled down, the European civilization was, as it were, blown up.” H. G. Wells , War in the Air (1908) “The human problem the war will leave behind it has not…
De Administrando Imperio GENERAL INTRODUCTION The emperor Constantine VII Perphyrogenitus (905 – 959) was the second and only surviving son of the emperor Leo VI, surnamed the Wise, (866 – 912) by his mistress and later fourth wife, Zoe Carbunopsina. Constantine’s early life was clouded by series…
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The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne [Maiden Bradley] August, 25 [1831] Dearest Lord, A thousand thanks for your kindness with regard to the picture, and indeed I blush to think that my innocence so misled me as to make me suppose there was but one penitentiary in the City of Crime of…