Europe East and West
“All sorts of unsettling questions spring to mind, and the comforting, received versions of what happened in those years that some of us grew up with and grow old in, appear alarmingly wide of the mark.”–SpectatorPraise forEurope: A HistoryShort-listed for the 1997 NCR Award“Books of real quality and importance are rare. Norman Davies’s history of Europe is one of them.”–Financial Times“A huge, heroic book . . . After Davies, it will never be possible to write a history of Europe in the old way again.”–London Review of Books