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“The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brook… more

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followe… more

Gertrude Bell was a remarkable woman for any age but her achievements in the British Colonial Office during World War I and in Iraq after the war were truly extraordinary. She was a prime architect, if not the mother of the modern state of … more

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE BEFORE BUYING THE BOOK:This 2nd edition of “My Splendid Concubine” will be unpublished on July 4th, 2013. It has already been replaced with the revised and edited 3rd edition that also includes the sequel, “Our Hart… more

No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress’s decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal… more

Rhodes had already tried and failed to get a mining concession from Lobengula, king of the Ndebele of Matabeleland. In 1888 he tried again. He sent John Moffat, son of the missionary Robert Moffat, who was trusted by Lobengula, to persuade … more