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"...nobody had suspected a war loomed on the horizon when 1918 dawned; but just twelve months later, it seemed that something was in the...

PART ONE: "SCHACHMATT" [...] in any case, the report that Chancellor Dollfuss had been near-fatally shot came as a shock to Mussolini...

"...formal protest by Texan Secretary of State Andrew Jackson Houston, whom it was lost on few was making moves to burnish his own...

Post #22- American Negotiations I'm Afraid of Americans David Bowie Franco-American relations had alternated between cool and tense...

"...Maximilian and Carlota attended private Christmas services in the Chapultepec's imperial chapel rather than the cathedral down upon...

Post #21- Mining “An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule.” ― T.A. Rickard Even as the Argonauts rose in...

Things are progressing smoothly on this next chapter! I was going to write it all together, but I felt like this section met a natural...

Post #20- The Frontier Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin The main areas of European...

Chapter 155 - Who Can it Be Now?: (Another) Changing of the Guard in Moscow Above: The view from Red Square - state funeral for Mikhail...

Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty 5th April 1980 Miranda de Ebro, Spain The annual Spring Exercises of European Defense...

"...figure well-liked by the Austrian establishment, and the feeling was reciprocated; Prince Franz and his wife, Isabella Antonie of...

"...Elisabeth was known by friends and admirers alike to always be highly reluctant to travel to Budapest; while she had not accompanied...

"...as 1918 began to draw to a close, it became more obvious than ever - even if Castelnau was loathe to admit it even in meetings of...

"...arguably the most important development on the Spanish right since the fall of the Maura government in 1910. For without Nocedal's...

"...a domestic moderate reformist and chief figure in the Opportunist camp who nonetheless held a number of views that made him not just...