- Published: 30 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446467589
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Europe East and West
- Published: 30 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446467589
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Davies's writing is remarkable for its breadth of knowledge and for the ease and enthusiasm with which this is conveyed...the book reads like a seamless work of history... we are blessed today to have a clutch of historians like Norman Davies, historians of opinion - of Left and Right (who cares which?) - who neither patronise nor bore their readers, who open up areas for disagreement and argument... Norman Davies is certainly their most ambitious, satisfying and enjoyable representative.
Carmen Callil, Sunday Telegraph
Like a connoisseur picking up a find in a junk-shop, Davies holds up these events to a completely fresh light, and in so doing transforms them in our eyes. 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.
Adam Zamoyski, Spectator
Lovers of serendipity will find much to enjoy here.
Max Hastings, Sunday Times