Greatness is in the eye of the beholder and any measure of that greatness stirs debate, outrage and a passion that burns deep in the soul of any professional fo

This two-volume English translation of part of a longer narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evliya Çelebi (1611-c.1680) was published in 1834. It offers a fasc

This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian