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. The Dream of Europe: Travels in the twenty-first century traces the events of the past twenty-two years (19992021) through Mak’s personal travels and encounters through Europe. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. 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. Here the Dutch journalist Geert Mak might have some ideas. In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century is written by Geert Mak and published by Vintage. 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.

It describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's well-springs of memory. This work is an account of that journey, including diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players. In Europe (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) by Geert Mak - Penguin Books Australia Published: 8 January 2019 ISBN: 9781784874995 Imprint: Vintage Classics Format: Paperback Pages: 912 RRP: 34. Weight in Grams: 608.We ship daily from our Bookshop.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, Tracing the history of Europe, the author spent a year criss-crossing the continent. Num Pages: 896 pages, Illustrations, maps.

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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. Books by Geert Mak (Author of In Europe) Books by Geert Mak Geert Mak Average rating 4.01 The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent.

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