OL931630W Page_number_confidence 97.22 Pages 902 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200810213644 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 455 Scandate 20200724145449 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780307280572 Tts_version 4. In Europe is a masterpiece it reads like the epic novel of the continent's most extraordinary century.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:05:10 Boxid IA1898612 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to his own half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that suddenly give it a face, a taste and a smell.
And in an abandoned crèche 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. 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. 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. At Ypres he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated twice a day. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's well-springs of memory, where history is written into the landscape. The result is mesmerising: 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 Adriana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau.īut Mak is above all an observer. In Europe is a dazzling account of that journey, and combines the larger story of Europe with intimate, vivid detail. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. In 1999, journalist and historian Geert Mak criss-crossed the continent in the simple yet monumental quest to trace European twentieth-century history as the world slipped into the twenty-first.
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.
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