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Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of EuropeIn 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 ...

‘Idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect.’Sir Tom Stoppard‘There is so much fascinating detail in this book that it is hard to put down’ Michael Burleigh‘He has created a genre all of his own, the history-travelogue memoir’Judith Flanders

In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met up at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to annex 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 Euro...

From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of this charming personal history by the author of "Germania.

Winder explores how people are misled by history, how they twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. The work is full of curiosities, odd food, castles, mad princes, and fairy tales--the unseen sides of Germany.many.

From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of this charming personal history by the author of "Germania.

Winder explores how people are misled by history, how they twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. The work is full of curiosities, odd food, castles, mad princes, and fairy tales--the unseen sides of Germany.many.

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.For centuries the very peculiar Habsburg family ruled most of Central Europe and Germany. From their principal lairs along the Danube this unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. Danubia tells the history of this strange dynasty, bu...

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Ian Fleming fabricated an icon that has endured long past its maker's death. Winder lovingly and ruefully re-creates the nadirs and humiliations of fandom while illuminating what Bond's evolution says about the conservative movement, sex, the monarchy, food, attitudes toward America, class, and everything in between.

Een betoverend weefsel van een reisverslag, anekdotes en komisch-heroïsche geschiedenis.' Sunday Times Simon Winder raakte op jonge leeftijd gefascineerd door Duitsland. Boeken over de geschiedenis van Duitsland gaan vaak over de zwartste bladzijden uit haar verleden. Duitsland kende in de eeuwen voor de opkomst van het nazisme echter zo veel culturele en historische rijkdom, dat Winder het tot zijn missie heeft gemaakt om dit onder de aandach...

Op reis door het land van de Habsburgers met de grappigste reisleider ooit! Eeuwenlang was Europa in handen van het eigenaardige Huis Habsburg, dat tot 1918 over grote delen van Centraal-Europa en Duitsland heerste en zich bemoeide met alles wat er in Europa gebeurde. Danubia is de verzamelnaam van de landen en gebieden rondom de rivier de Donau, de thuisbasis van de Habsburgers. Simon Winder reist met groot enthousiasme door dit uitgestrek...

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating video...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE, A CHARMINGLY PERSONAL HISTORY OF HABSBURG EUROPE BY THE AUTHOR OF GERMANIAFrom the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia.Winder's approach is friendly, witty, personal, this is a narrative that, while erudite and well researched, prefers to be discursive and anecd...

It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, Winder describes Germany's past afresh - a...