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What the critics say

Books of real quality and importance are rare. Norman Davies's history of Europe is one of them. It is a brilliant achievement, written with intelligence, lucidity and a breathtaking width of knowledge... This is a book everyone should read
- Financial Times

A noble monument of scholarship, and all the more noble because it is so full of surprise and feeling... There are superb assessments of vastly daunting subjects
- Independent

Monumental, authoritative... A book for enquiring minds of all ages, it will answer hundreds of enquires and provoke thousands more
- Sunday Telegraph

No history of Europe in the English language has been so even-handed in its treatment of east and west... Strong characterisation, vivid detail, trenchant opinions, cogent anaylsis all make this tremendous reading
- Times Literary Supplement