In Europe : travels through the twentieth century

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Label

In Europe : travels through the twentieth century

Title remainder

travels through the twentieth century

Statement of responsibility

Geert Mak ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett

Creator

• Mak, Geert

Subject

• Europe -- Description and travel
• Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Historians -- Netherlands -- Diaries
• Mak, Geert -- Travel -- Europe
• Journalists -- Netherlands -- Diaries

Genre

• Diaries

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

Journalist 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. In the voices of prominent figures and unknown players, 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. This book reads like an epic novel of Europe's most extraordinary century.--From publisher description

Member of

• In Europa

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.5

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction