Norman Davies is the author of the No 1 best-seller Europe: a History (1996), Microcosm: Portrait of a European City (with Roger Moorhouse) and Rising '44: the Battle for Warsaw (date). From 1997-2006 he was Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; he is now Professor at the Jagiellonian University at Cracow, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a life member of Clare Hall and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Oxford and Cracow.
"Hugely ambitious . . . From the mists, Mr. Davies summons the
kingdoms; he records their emergence, their flowering and their
demise--whether by 'internall diseases' or 'forraign warre' in
Thomas Hobbes's words. And he examines the traces that the kingdoms
have left behind, in works of art or a piece of rock or perhaps
just a place name."--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Davies is certainly one of the best British historical writers of
the past half century, and every gauntlet he throws down is
bejeweled. His literary gifts and his capacity for what he nicely
calls 'imaginative sympathy' are stretched to their limits by this
challenging project. . . . Yet Davies succeeds, and it is quite a
success."
--Timothy Snyder, "The Guardian" (London)
"Davies is certainly one of the best British historical writers of
the past half century, and every gauntlet he throws down is
bejeweled. His literary gifts and his capacity for what he nicely
calls 'imaginative sympathy' are stretched to their limits by this
challenging project. . . . Yet Davies succeeds, and it is quite a
success."
--Timothy Snyder, "The Guardian"
"Davies is well known as an iconoclast who punctures the comforting
myths of countries that history has blessed. . . . "Vanished
Kingdoms" gives full rein to his historical imagination and
enthusiasms, imparting a powerful sense of places lost in time. All
across Europe ghosts will bless him for telling their
long-forgotten stories."
--"The Economist"
"Davies resurrects the lands and peoples that were lost in the
brutal tide of history. . . . It takes a tremendous feat of empathy
to write about countries and peoples that no longer exist. And the
amount of information in "Vanished Kingdoms" that will be new to
all but the most expert students of European history is staggering.
. . . Fascinating facts and insights flutter on its many
pages."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"An alternative history of Europe that is . . . densely packed yet
commendably accessible, magisterial and uncommonly humane."--"The
Boston Globe"
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