Norman Davies is the bestselling author of several acclaimed books, including Europe: A History; Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw; and No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. He lives in Oxford, England, and Cracow, Poland.
“An alternative history of Europe that is . . . densely packed yet
commendably accessible, magisterial, and uncommonly humane.” — The
Boston Globe
“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 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
“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 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)
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