Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Robert Conquest
Born: July 15, 1917
Died: August 3, 2015 (aged 98)
Bio: George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s.
Known for:
- The Great Terror (1968)
- The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
- Stalin (1991)
- Reflections on a ravaged century (1999)
- The Dragons of Expectation (2005)