Lotharingia: A Personal History Of France Germany And The Countries In-Between Simon Winder Picador Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

A Sunday Times History Book Of The Yearshortlisted For Stanford Dolman Travel Year Award\ No Briton Has Written Better Than Winder About Europe\ - Timesin Ad 843 Three Surviving Grandsons Great Emperor Charlemagne Met At Verdun After Years Bitter Squabbles Over Who Would Inherit Family Land They Finally Decided To Divide Territory And Go Their Separate Ways In Moment Staggering Significance One Grandson Inherited What Became France Another Germany Third Lotharingia: Chunk That Initially Divided Other Two Dynamic Between These Zones Dictated Much Our Subsequent Fate This Beguiling Hilarious Compelling Simon Retraces How Both From West East Any Number Ambitious Characters Have Tried Failed Grapple With Lotharingians Ultimately Dutch German Belgian French Luxembourgers Swiss Many Centuries Not Only Lotharingia Brought Forth S Greatest Artists Inventors Thinkers But It Also Reduced Would-Be Conqueror Helpless Tears Rage Frustration Joining Germania Danubia Winder\ Endlessly Fascinating Retelling European Is Personal Wonderful Gripping Story Σελίδες: 528 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0225 Διαστάσεις: 13 1X13 1Cm