[a_Turk]

I'll look up the book "Carrol Quigley's history text, Tragedy and Hope."

I am aware of the German "Drang nach Osten" and the Berlin to Baghdad Railroad, the last leg of which was never finished in time.

[George W. Bush]

I'll look up the book "Carrol Quigley's history text, Tragedy and Hope."

A difficult book to find but Amazon can get it if you wait a month or so. Quigley's book is an excellent modern history that draws its subjects in terms of economics instead of personalities and tribalism, the usual bane of conventional histories.

It's valuable reading for anyone who wishes to understand the Third World and the problems they face in improving the lives of their people. It is replete with examples of successful and unsuccessful models of development in the history of many civilizations.