Reader recommendation: Eight Pieces of Empire
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By
Dianne Aisenbrey, Red Wing, Minn.
Eight Pieces of Empire, by Lawrence Scott Sheets, a journalist and investigative reporter for NPR and BBC World News, provides an eminently readable account of a complicated time when the USSR collapsed in 1991 and new countries were forming over a 20-year period.