Full name: In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

Author: Geert Mak Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307280572 0307280578

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, SaintPetersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc ofhistory-talking to a former ticket-taker at the gates of the Birkenau concentration camp or noting the neat rows of tiny shoes in the abandoned nursery school in the shadow of Chernobyl. His unique approach makes thereader an eyewitness to a half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. Sweeping in scale, but intimate in detail "In Europe" is amasterpiece. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Similar books: Amsterdam by Geert Mak Dark Continent by Mark Mazower The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom A History In Fragments by Richard Vinen Postwar by Tony Judt An Island in Time by Geert Mak Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies Early Modern Europe by Euan Cameron Europe by Norman Davies Roller-Coaster by Ian Kershaw The Struggle for Europe by William I. Hitchcock Savage Continent by Keith Lowe To Hell and Back by Ian Kershaw Central Europe by Lonnie Johnson The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon Europe Divided 1559-1598 by J. H. Elliott 1848 by Mike Rapport A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston