num_pages: 752
description: 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."
language: English
title: In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
titlecomplete: In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
genres: 20th Century, History, Politics, Journalism, European History, Historical, War, Nonfiction, Travel, Unfinished
ratings_count: 4050
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Bob den Uyl Prijs, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Leipzig Book Award
category: European Understanding
publisher: Harvill Secker