"Madrid is a strange place… I do not believe anyone likes it much when he first goes there. It has none of the look th…"

"To illustrate how dramatically populations can displace each other over time, the historian E.M. Kulischer once remin…"

"While many of the world's richest people live in London, four of its boroughs rank among the twenty poorest in Englan…"

"Islamabad, “the city of Islam,” the capital of Pakistan, was new. It had been built about twenty years before by a mi…"

"Warschau wird glattrasiert."

"’Twas a night to make the bravest Shrink from the tempest’s breath, For the winter snows were bitter, And the winds w…"

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind tha…"

"When the Jews finally staged the uprising in April 1943, the Polish underground refused them almost every form of ass…"

"So there is no single European people. There is no single all-embracing community of culture and tradition among, say…"

"Cultivation, old civilization, beauty, history! Surprising turnings of streets, shapes of venerable cottages, lovely …"