Rochester’s immigrant saga is filled with compelling tales of hardship and achievement. Dutchtown―originally Deutschtown―is perhaps the most beloved immigrant neighborhood because of the tens of thousands of regional families who trace their forebears back to it. Rochester’s Dutchtown tells how the neighborhood evolved out of Frankfort; a German settlement established in 1810 at the High Falls. Scenes depict countless hardworking citizens; including Italian immigrants who first arrived in the 1880s; and fascinating relics of an industrial center that thrived for nearly two centuries.
#566101 in Books John Murray 2006-03-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 7.75 x .60 x 5.00l; 1.10 #File Name: 0719564506272 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Central Asia saturation; with a Balkan detourBy Borrowed BluePeter Hopkirk's books on Central Asia are very good. Begin with The Great Game; go on to On Secret Service East of Constantinople; and follow with Setting the East Ablaze. Hopkirk was apparently inspired by Fitzroy MacLean's Eastern Approaches; to do much research and write his own books set in Central Asia. MacLean; after his diplomatic service in Moscow; with accompanying forays into 'Central Asia;' went to join The Phantom Major (David Stirling) in North Africa; before being sent by Churchill to 'Yugoslavia' to discover which resistance group was the strongest; and the one most likely to help drive the Germans and Italians out of the Balkans -- this group; then; Britain would send supplies to. MacLean and Churchill recognized that they would be choosing to help a Communist resistance group (The Partisans); and that there would be 'problems' related to the choice at the end of the war. [Read Nikolai Tolstoy's books The Minister and the Massacres and The Secret Betrayal: 1944-1947. Also; Nicholas Bethell's The Last Secret.] For fans of John Buchan's novels; Hopkirk says that On Secret Service East of Constantinople is the "true story" which lies behind Buchan's novel Greenmantle. Readers of On Secret Service East of Constantinople may want to read next; The Spy Who Disappeared; by Reginald Teague-Jones...along with Hopkirk's Setting the East Ablaze. These writers give a reader so many "ends of golden strings;" that to follow them all; would take many months; and the reading of a good many books! Hopkirk is a good writer; whatever he is writing about.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Did the Great Game ever end? Not in terms of its consequences for the modern Near East and Central Asia.By R. MooreWith the East truly ablaze these days I am grateful to British historical fiction author Antoine Vanner ("Britannia's Reach;" "Britannia's Wolf") for introducing me to the works of Peter Hopkirk. While not written in chronological order; this book could be considered the third of a trilogy of works by Hopkirk that provide a very thorough; historically sound; yet highly readable introduction to the "Great Game" of territorial rivalry between Britain (ever concerned for the future of India; the jewel in the crown of the British empire) and Imperial and later Soviet Russia over influence in central Asia. One cannot hope to understand current events and passions in this region without at least an introduction to this history of Western intervention in the region.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Great Game between the World WarsBy E. A. KinzelThis is another of Peter Hopkirk's wonderful books about Central Asia; mostly dealing with players in the Great Game. This volume takes up the story after World War One; when the Bolsheviks decided they would attempt to the keep the provinces of Tsarist Russia intact and part of the Soviet Union; all in the name of anti-imperialism. There were also various Chinese; Turkic; and British forces at work in the power void which resulted in Central Asia after the collapse of the Russian Empire.Like other Hopkirk books; this is not dry history; but a series of compelling portraits of individual players in the intrigues of the time. These include the "Mad Baron"; von Ungern-Sternberg; a White Russian who thought he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan; and attempted to recreate the latter's Empire in an orgy of murder and destruction. There is also the British super-spy Bailey; who survived for months behind Bolshevik lines as they actively pursued him. At one point he assumed the disguise of an Albanian (correctly assuming that there would likely be no one in Central Asia to check his linguistic bona fides); became a Soviet agent; and was given as one of his tasks gathering information about the British spy Bailey. Another character was Enver Pasha; the cosmopolitan former Ottoman leader; who tried to create a pan-Turkic state in central Asia; to stretch from Anatolia to Chinese Turkestan.An excellent book.
