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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Mak, Geert
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- ISBN
- 9780307280572
- Book Title
- In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Travel, History
- Topic
- Modern / 20th Century, Europe / General
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 896 Pages
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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, Saint Petersburg 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 of history-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 the reader 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 a masterpiece.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307280578
ISBN-13
9780307280572
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63904837
Product Key Features
Book Title
In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, Europe / General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Number of Pages
896 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
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"Superb. . . . Mr. Mak is a skilled distiller of archival evidence, but his firsthand witnesses deliver us even more harrowingly into the past."- The New York Sun "An original, fresh and first-hand documented essay of recent European history. It's an ideal reading for anyone doing 'le grand tour' across the Old Continent."- The Washington Post "Dazzling, imaginative and mesmerizing."- The Tucson Citizen "Subtle. . . It is a testament to Mak's warmth and skill as a writer that even in a chronicle of unrelenting barbarity he has portrayed a humanity worth saving."- Time, "Twentieth-century history is sober business, yet "In Europe" is practically effervescent in its evocation of detail. Mak doesn't write about Auschwitz and the ethnically cleansed alleys of Srebrenica so much as personally lead you among the concrete walls of these places that have shaped our self-awareness." --Russell Shorto, author of "The Island at the Center of the World ""Fascinating, informative, sometimes exhilarating, often painful, and quite impossible to summarise... A wonderfully rich journey through time and space, packed with vivid images, enlivened by conversations and stories." --"The Literary Review ""A people's history that does not shy away from the bigger questions posed in the wake of two world wars... The real achievement here is not the unearthing of these nuggets of anecdotal history but the skill with which Mak sets them in context." --"The Herald ""A formidable achievement." --Jan Morris "Geert Mak is Europe's portrait-painter, its impressionist, its poet-musician, the reader of its people's minds. Pray, read his book!" --John Lucas, author of "June 1941: Hitler and Stalin ""It's impossible not to get drawn into this book. --"The Sunday Telegraph" "From the Hardcover edition.", "Superb. . . . Mr. Mak is a skilled distiller of archival evidence, but his firsthand witnesses deliver us even more harrowingly into the past." -The New York Sun "An original, fresh and first-hand documented essay of recent European history. It's an ideal reading for anyone doing 'le grand tour' across the Old Continent." -The Washington Post "Dazzling, imaginative and mesmerizing." -The Tucson Citizen "Subtle. . . It is a testament to Mak's warmth and skill as a writer that even in a chronicle of unrelenting barbarity he has portrayed a humanity worth saving." -Time
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940.5
Dewey Edition
22
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