Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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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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