Harrison E. Salisbury

Years after completing his story of that historic D-day-June 6, 1944when Allied troops stormed ashore in Normandy, France, marking the beginning of the end of the Third Reich, Cornelius Ryan was still getting letters from readers. In 1970 one came from the daughter of a D-day casualty. "I am 27,...

A PROLOGUE DEATH IN DALLAS by Tom Wicker Dallas, Nov. 22—President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today. He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade. Vice President Lyndon...

About Emperors[ajmBlHUNDREDS OF MEN have borne the title of emperor, hum^-ti, in China's long history. Few have exercised more power, personal and political, than Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, true huang-ti.The first huang-ti was the Yellow Emperor, the legendary ruler who founded China on the rich...

1. Ein stiller Sonntag In Moskau war der Morgen des 22. Juni 1941 besonders schön. Es war die Zeit der Sommersonnenwende, und das Tagesgestirn ging schon kurz nach drei Uhr früh auf. In Leningrad spazierten junge Leute, Burschen und Mädchen, in der Romantik der ,,weißen Nächte" stundenlang...