In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 10, 2008
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A rigorous, readable guide through the century’s upheavals, with a traveler’s eye for Europe’s shifts.
- Genres
- 20th-Century History, European History, Europe Travel
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 10, 2008
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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.
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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.
Why It Lands
A rigorous, readable guide through the century’s upheavals, with a traveler’s eye for Europe’s shifts.
Come here for
- cultural-literacy sweep
- travel-led historical perspective
Expect
- measured explanation
- sustained narrative pace
Where it sits
| 20th-Century History | 74% |
|---|---|
| European History | 48% |
| Europe Travel | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- European History
- 20th-Century History
- Europe Travel
- Authors
- Geert Mak
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 10, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- European History