Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims...

The Czarist era through the revolution and civil war. Many portraits, fashion photos, scenes of everyday life from all areas of Russia as well as the Imperial family and the upper class. 212 pages; 199 b&w photographs; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.