Thursday, July 13, 2006

Hugh Pope on ABC Radio with John Batchelor tonight

Hugh Pope, author of SONS OF THE CONQUERORS, will be interviewed tonight (or technically first thing Friday morning) on the John Batchelor Show on ABC Radio Networks tonight around midnight EST.

With a scope ranging far beyond the physical boundaries of Turkey, SONS OF THE CONQUERORS provides a vivid picture of the descendants of the nomad armies who once conquered China and the Byzantine Empire. Pope shows the myriad connections that live on between Turks in the Xinjiang province of western China (one of that country's few remaining bastions of rebellion), through Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, the Netherlands, Germany (where Turkish can be heard on every other street corner of Berlin), and all the way to the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. Along the way he reassesses a history in which, before their ascendancy was broken by the rising power of Europe, Russia and China in the past two centuries. Fascinating stuff.

You can learn more about Hugh Pope and his book at www.sonsoftheconquerors.com or by clicking previous posts on this blog here, here and here. You can listen to a talk he gave at the Open Society Institute here and read the transcript of a lecture to the Carnegie Council here.

--John Mark

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