The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World – the sequel to Prisoners of Geography

by Tim Marshall

‘Democracy is like a bus ride. Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off.’

The country had been built on Atatürk’s secularism; now it was led by a party rooted in Islam,

The MLF offered free religious education, its version of justice, an end to bribes and, to recruits, over $1,000 if they would be suicide bombers.

‘hiding our capabilities’ and ‘biding our time’ policy

In Afghanistan the Taliban had a saying about the foreign forces they took on: ‘You have the watches – we have the time.’

Mussolini’s generals described the opposition as ‘savages’, but there was only one side using poison gas and it wasn’t the Ethiopians.

The ISS is so big it can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye.