"Gripping and unsettling ... Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history ... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds
In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from an
Theash of Mt.Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating societyit instantly obliterated two thousand years ago.In this highly readable, lavishly illust