In 1945, Isawa Nakamura lost his mother and father to the nuclear maelstrom that was Hiroshima. Three days later his wife and child died in Nagasaki, and he himself was horribly burned. Now-forty-five years later-nothing will stop his dream of...
Peter the Great (1672-1725) pulled Russia into the Western realm despite the opposition of noblemen, churchmen, and even the ordinary peasant. His untimely demise in 1725 did not allow him to appoint a successor. The next 25 years were consumed...