Robert K. Massie

OLD MUSCOVYSiROUND Moscow, the country rolls gently up from the rivers winding in silvery loops across the pleasant landscape. Small lakes and patches of woods are sprinkled among the meadow-lands. Here and there, a village appears, topped by the onion dome of its church. People are walking through...

Blinding snow. A vital runway blocked. And the luxury Golden Argosy flight has taken off for Rome.Among those aboard the mammoth jet : a veteran captain, his stewardess sweetheart, a little old lady stowaway, and a nervous man with a briefcase. Thenthe plane turns back. And skilled hands and...

IntroiuctionThe writing of this book is the result, like most things in life, of a circumstance of Fate. Since the day, now over ten years ago, that my wife and I discovered that our son had hemophilia, I have tried to learn how other families dealt with the problems raised by this unique disease....

I • Sophia's Childhood prince Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst was hardly distinguishable in the swarm of obscure, penurious noblemen who cluttered the landscape and society of politically fragmented eighteenth-century Germany. Possessed neither of exceptional virtues nor alarming vices....