Showing posts with label Balkan history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balkan history. Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Forgotten battlegrounds of World War One: The Balkans and Eastern Europe

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A war that killed at least 15 million people began with two quick gunshots in the Balkans . The fighting of  World War One  began in the  B...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia led to his downfall

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“From the day of exchanging the ratification of the present treaties, there shall be perfect peace and amity between his majesty the empero...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

History of the European Union

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“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Africa, the Middle East, and Italy

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“♪ We’re the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy, Always on the vino, always on the spree. Eighth Army skivers and their tanks, We go to war in ties...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

A review of Bettany Hughes’ “The Spartans”

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“Athens became the seat of politeness and taste, the country of orators and philosophers. The elegance of its buildings equalled that of i...
Friday, May 29, 2020

A review of “Byzantium: The Lost Empire” (The Learning Channel)

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Also known as the “Eastern Roman Empire,” which lasted about a thousand years longer than the better-known “Western Roman Empire.” The R...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

A review of “Athens: The Dawn of Democracy”

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“Sparta, Athens , Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind. Yet were they as often...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Behind the Iron Curtain: Occupation by the Soviet Union

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"While the Wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system - for all the world to see - we...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

A review of “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” (PBS Empires)

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"Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the nece...
Friday, April 3, 2015

The Marshall Plan: Helping the poor, keeping the peace, and stopping the communists

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"If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Reflections on learning about history of Ancient Greece

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"The history of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a count...