Americans may find the history recounted in "Ideology of Death" alien to their experience and sensibility.

Oral histories recount how various people used divine power to command the statues to walk.

This history recounts the sensational attempted murder trial of Searvant during 1891.

So the history recounted in these two books about the newly reunited city has significance beyond the deceptively limited time and setting they share.

Until 1942, Poles made up the largest group of prisoners, the history recounts.

In fact, by the end of 740 pages, just about everyone who's come within range has had his or her head invaded and full history recounted.

"The station continued to feel that the project was not quite dead," the secret history recounts.

The town's earliest history recounts Indian assaults, raids and captivities.

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

Perhaps this history recounted, he would tell his own.