Europe

Praise for Roderick Beaton's previous book Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life

Victoria Hislop, The Week

Beaton's new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern Greece in English for years to come

Financial Times

This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single most outstanding treatment of its subject

Professor Robert Holland

A perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of the EU

Country Life

A wonderfully engaging narrative... It is a superb achievement and to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary interest

Professor Kevin Featherstone

Europe is big history at its best. In this captivating romp across twenty-five centuries, from the Battle of Marathon to Putin’s war on Ukraine, Roderick Beaton offers inspiring and surprising answers to one of the great questions of our age: What is Europe?

Ian Morris, author of <i>Why the West Rules—For Now</i>

A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable. A true tour de force

Peter Frankopan