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  In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Paperback) By (author) Geert Mak, Translated by Sam Garrett

  

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  Short Description for In EuropeFrom 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, Saint Petersburg 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 wit...
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 10 June 2008
  • Format: Paperback 878 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780307280572 ISBN 10: 0307280578
  • Sales rank: 118,096

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• 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, Saint Petersburg 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 of history-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 the reader 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 a masterpiece.