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An edition of In Europa (2007)

In Europe

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Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerizing: Mak's rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist and a hugely imaginative historian makes In Europe a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adrinana Warno in Poland, with her job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. But Mak is above all an observer. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's wellsprings of memory, where history is written into the landscape. At Ypres, he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated there twice a day. In Warsaw, he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park. And in an abandoned nursery school near Chernobyl, where tiny pairs of shoes still stand in neat rows, he is transported back to the moment time stood still in the dying days of the Soviet Union. Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that give it a face, a taste and a smell. His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to a half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. In Europe is a masterpiece; it reads like the epic novel of Europe's most extraordinary century.From the Hardcover edition.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English

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In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw
2012, Atlas - Contact
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In Europe
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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In Europe: travels through the twentieth century
2008, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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In Europe: travels through the twentieth century
2007, Harvill Secker
in English
Cover of: In Europe
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
August 7, 2007, Pantheon
in English
Cover of: In Europe
In Europe: travels through the twentieth century
2007, Pantheon Books
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Pantheon Books, N.Y

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genre
Diaries.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.5
Library of Congress
D424 M3513 2007, D424 .M3513 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17163474M
Internet Archive
ineuropetravelst0000makg
ISBN 13
9780375424953
LCCN
2007009260
OCLC/WorldCat
85783466
Library Thing
2327692
Goodreads
579110

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