Fifty years of Europe
Subtitle: an album
By: Jan Morris.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Villard
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Morris, Jan, 1926- -- Travel -- Europe; Europe -- Description and travel; Europe -- Civilization -- 1945-
Description: Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century - the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany's reunification, ethnic warfare, even the ongoing creation of a common parliament and currency - rendered our culture not only unrecognizable but unimaginable?

These are among the myriad questions posed by Jan Morris in Fifty Years of Europe. Morris, one of our era's most engaging historians and celebrated travelers, revisits the continent she's long known so well and tries to discover whether she now knows it at all. How she contrasts her European experiences today with those of two generations past makes for an insightful and highly personal study.