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A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
by Simon Winder
Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe.
In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia.
Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simon Winder retraces the various powers that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have lived there for centuries.
"Starred Review. A meandering and highly entertaining amble through fascinating bits of history that culminates in the horrors of the invading armies of the world wars." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers may wish Winder's editors had insisted on excising some minutiae, but they will both learn from and be entertained by this enthusiastic, outside-the-box European history." - Publishers Weekly
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Simon Winder is the author of Germania, Danubia, and The Man Who Saved Britain. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town, London.
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