Author
Norman Davies
Publisher
The Folio Society
Price
£150
Released
Out now
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When Norman Davies took on the daunting task of writing a comprehensive history of Europe in the late 1980s he likely couldn’t foresee just how important his particular contribution to that well-trodden plain was going to be. Commissioned as the USSR was falling and finished as it had finally collapse and the European Union was being ratified, Europe: A History was a rare title that looked to bridge the gap between Western and Eastern European history.