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BORDERLINES - LEWIS BASTON KARTONIERT (TB)

'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of
the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT    'Thrillingly unique 
knowledgeable  perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT    'A light-footed journey along the fault
lines of history.' KATJA HOYER    The history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders
that define the past  present and future of our continent   Europe's internal borders have
rarely been 'natural'  they have more often been created by accident or force.  In Borderlines
political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty-nine key borders from west to east
Europe  examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century  with
varying degrees of success. The fingerprints of Napoleon  Alexander I  Castlereagh  Napoleon
III and Bismarck are all there  but today's map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in
1919 and Stalin in 1945.  To journey to the centre of the story of Europe  Baston takes us to
its edges  bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones.
We visit Baarle  the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland-Belgium border  and
stop in Ostritz  the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival. We meander the back
lanes of rural Ireland  and soak up the atmosphere in the coffee houses of the Ukrainian city
of Chernivtsi. Through these borderlands  Baston explores how places and people heal from the
scars left by a Europe of ethnic cleansing and barbed wire fences  and he searches for a better
European future - finding it in unexpected places.  ' Extraordinarily perceptive and original'
ANTHONY SELDON    'Refreshing and important' RAFAEL BEHR

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