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ISbN 978-0-14-312295-1 $25.00 (NCR)<br />

Category 6 x 9 848 pp. Rights: N43 Two 16-page color<br />

inserts; b/w maps and photos throughout Pub history: Viking<br />

hc 978-0-670-02273-1 On sale: 11/27/2012<br />

SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />

“ The amount of information in Vanished<br />

Kingdoms that will be new to all but the most<br />

expert students of European history<br />

is staggering.” —San Francisco Chronicle<br />

Also AvAilABle FRoM <strong>Penguin</strong>:<br />

Rising ’44 978-0-14-303540-4 $22.00<br />

No Simple Victory 978-0-14-311409-3 $18.00<br />

“ An alternative history of Europe that is<br />

. . . commendably accessible, magisterial,<br />

and uncommonly humane.”<br />

—The Boston Globe<br />

Vanished Kingdoms<br />

The Rise and Fall of States and Nations<br />

Norman Davies<br />

From the bestselling author of Europe: A History comes a uniquely<br />

ambitious masterpiece that will thrill fans of lost civilizations.<br />

While Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our<br />

conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent<br />

constructs. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction,<br />

Norman Davies brings back to life the long-forgotten empire of<br />

Aragon, which once controlled the Western Mediterranean; the<br />

Grand Duchy of Lithuania, once the largest country in Europe,<br />

and the Kingdom of the Rock, founded by ancient Britons when<br />

neither England nor Scotland existed. In the tradition of Jared<br />

Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Davies subverts our established<br />

view of the past and urges us to reconsider the impetus for the rise<br />

and fall of nations.<br />

n Norman Davies’s Europe: A History was a #1 international bestseller<br />

n Includes two 16-page color inserts, with maps and photos throughout<br />

n Chosen by the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the<br />

Financial Times, and the New Statesman as a best book of the year<br />

in the U.K.<br />

noRMAn dAvies is the bestselling author of several<br />

acclaimed books, including Europe: A History; Rising ’44: The<br />

Battle for Warsaw; and No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe,<br />

1939–1945. He lives in Oxford, England, and Cracow, Poland.<br />

ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />

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