He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. Weight in Grams: 608.We ship daily from our Bookshop. 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. Num Pages: 896 pages, Illustrations, maps. This book offers an 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. The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. (Aug.Choose your shipping method in Checkout.
Mak's brilliant compendium is difficult to define-is it a history book, a travelogue, a memoir?-but stands out as a remarkable, insightful, exhilarating exposition on that peculiar continent across the Atlantic. In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century Geert Mak 4.34 3,947 ratings311 reviews 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. What Mak discovered was that while “Europe” is turning itself into an ostensible “union,” there is unexpectedly “little in the way of a shared historical experience.” There is no European people, for instance, and every nation has conceived its own version of the catastrophic First and Second World Wars. For his columns, collected here, Mak used his reporter's eye to describe the vividness of the countryside and cityscapes through which he traveled, his writer's ear to interview individuals who had experienced Europe's most terrible and terrific times, and his historian's pen to narrate the passing of that most extraordinary of centuries. To crisscross Europe in the final year before the millennium to discover “what shape the continent was in.” And crisscross he did: Vienna, London Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Chernobyl, Lourdes, Budapest Srebrenica and dozens more. In Europe by Geert Mak: 9780307280572 : Books 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 In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century Kindle Edition by Geert Mak (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 155 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 16.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 54.61 32 Used from 4.00 5 New from 47.88 5 Collectible from 9. He is one of the Netherlands’ bestselling authors, has twice been awarded Historian of the Year and his books have been translated into more than 20 languages. On January 4, 1999, Mak, a journalist and one of the Netherlands' most popular authors, set out from Amsterdam on assignment for his newspaper, the NRC Handelsblad, Geert Mak is a journalist and historian, and the internationally acclaimed author of In Europe, In America, Amsterdam and The Bridge. His books include Amsterdam, How God Disappeared from Jorwerd, My Fathers Century, In Europe and.
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