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Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between


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From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe. In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia. Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simon Winder retraces the various powers that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have lived there for centuries.

About the Author :
Simon Winder is the author of the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain and the Sunday Times top-ten bestseller Germania. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town.

Review :
A master of the art of making history both funny and fun . . . Once again he brings Germany bouncing back to life Winder is our guide with delicious festive wit, and equal erudition Weird and wonderful . . . No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe There is so much fascinating detail in this book that it is hard to put down . . . Winder looks afresh at the long arc of European history, with its perpetual interplay between defiant local units and grandiose attempts at unifying schemes The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder. Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect Brings to mind PJ O'Rourke's Holidays in Hell or anything by Bill Bryson A heady blend of jolly travel stories, weird German aristocrats, obscure baroque altarpieces and horrendous sectarian massacres. There are plenty of serious points here, but Winder never forgets that history is meant to be fun An absolutely wonderful hybrid of hilarious travel writing and incisive historical analysis . . . Lotharingia follows on the acclaimed Danubia and Germania It's not so much history, as a long cultural tour, led by a brilliantly witty guide . . . There are a great many jokes and irreverent hoots, in case everything gets too earnest . . . Simon Winder has created a genre all of his own, the history-travelogue-memoir, which he uses adeptly to explore the hinterlands between France and Germany and their centuries of dynasties, discord and discontent . . .


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781509803262
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Picador
  • Height: 200 mm
  • No of Pages: 528
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between
  • Width: 131 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1509803262
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Weight: 428 gr


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