EMPIRES APART. America and Russia, from Vikings to Iraq. A book by Brian Landers The American road to Baghdad started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia determined to impose their values on everyone they encountered. Simultaneously the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart traces the remarkable parallels in American and Russian histories up to the Cold War and beyond. Empiresapart.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check