Microcosm

This big, lucidly written and fact-filled book admirably achieves its purpose… Anyone who enjoyed Norman Davies’s…The Isles will recognise the same qualities in this book: a gift for broad exposition, a marvellous eye for quirky but revelatory details, and, above all, a willingness to question the categories of traditional history, wherever they may come from. – Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *Absorbing…clear…and persuasive…as even-handed, erudite and enlightening as history can be. * Herald *Microcosm tells the story of the city across the centuries. While not neglecting ethnic hatred and folly, the book is a hymn to diversity and cultural achievement. * Economist *The city is fortunate to have found such chroniclers as Davies and Roger Moorhouse. * Sunday Times *

Norman Davies C. M. G., F. B. A. is a Professor Emeritus of the University of London, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of several books on Polish and European history, including God’s Playground, Europe and The Isles.Roger Moorhouse, who is a Germanist and historian, was chief researcher on Davies’s previous books. Since Microcosm he has published two solo books- Killing Hitler and, most recently, Berlin at War. He is a regular contributor to the BBC History Magazine and History Today, a book reviewer for the Independent on Sunday, and an occasional commentator on television and radio

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