There was a clear villain and a clear victim, who rose to triumph over all odds.
Only in Germany did the eclectic hotchpotch of European ideas that formed the ideology of National Socialism rise, triumph and put itself into practice.
This time it is "the biggest geopolitical story of modern times: the birth, rise, triumph, defence and continuing growth of Anglo-American power despite continuing and always renewed opposition and conflict".
Atlantic Books; £25The birth, rise, triumph, defence and continuing growth of Anglo-American power or how the much-loathed Anglo-Saxons have (mostly) kept on winning.__________________________________________Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIABy Tim Weiner.
"Circus and the City: New York 1793-2010," onening on Friday at the Bard Graduate Center Galleries, chronicles the rise, triumph and ultimate fragmentation of the circus through the lens of the city, making the case that the circus transformed entertainment, media and advertising and that the city itself played an important role in the evolution of the American circus.
The heart of "Joe Strummer" is the narrative of the band's rise, triumph and eventual unraveling, a tale told by survivors, participants, hangers-on and fans and animated by performances that have lost little of their immediacy or force in the intervening years.
Each tackles the question of history from a specific position within architectural practice the skyscraper, the interior, materials, civics and urbanism, and so on thereby sidestepping the hoary narrative of modern architecture's rise, triumph and eclipse.
The music rises in triumph.
Last year our reviewer, Nelson George, praised "Lydon's dogged detailing of Charles's rise, triumphs and bittersweet old age".
Like a testament to life's stubborn triumph, a rose garden filled with thick, fragrant blossoms rises at the site where soldiers killed six Jesuit priests at the Jose Simeon Canas Central American University in 1989.
Her hair lay slicked back along her neck, her timid shoulders glistened and her chest rose with a steady triumph and sank with just as much contentment.
