Robert Massie

The activist and award-winning author of Loosing the Bonds traces the story of his life as a patient with hemophilia, recounting how after contracting HIV, but not AIDS, from a contaminated blood transfusion, he helped to advance HIV research by becoming a test subject at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The final years of the Russian Tsar and Empress are chronicled in this epic which begins in 1904. Tsar Nicholas II is celebrating the birth of his only son, the heir to the Russian throne. But all is not well in Russia, for it is at war with the Japanese and there is a growing threat of internal revolution. Empress Alexandra, searching for answers to troubles of her own, seeks the advice from the charismatic monk, Rasputin, who, many believe, has...