Word: eurasia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mongol Empire, which tells the story of Genghis Khan and the world he made, is a splendid slice of history. First published in German in 1938, it is the work of a Russian scholar with a flair for narrative. As it courses back & forth across Eurasia, following the fierce Mon gol horsemen, the book reads less like a scholar's chronicle than a majestic folk epic...
...Freeman, made his fortune in export trade with Nationalist China and was registered as a representative for the Kuomintang government. Grand Strategy articles in the magazine call for an active war against Communist China through arming Chiang. Thus, while America keeps her troops at home, we can "free Eurasia without expending a single American soldier in battle." Europe is written off as a "sector of containment" in this scheme, presumably just a sponge for Russian armies...
Movius is an outstanding American authority on the Old Stone Age in Eurasia and Africa. Last year he received the Viking Medal for his research in the Far East and his 1948 excavations in France...