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BORDERLINES - LEWIS BASTON KARTONIERT (TB)

'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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