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In Europe's Shadow
- Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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In Bucharest, Romania's capital, Kaplan discovered that few Westerners were reporting on the country - one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War. In an intense and cinematic travelogue, Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing; a country that gave rise to the dictator Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during WWII; a country where the Latin West mixes with the Greek East, producing a fascinating fusion of cultures.
In Europe's Shadow is a deep and vivid immersion into one place, a country that is a metaphor for Europe's current challenge in confronting Vladimir Putin's Russia. With the brilliant, insightful Kaplan as our narrator and eyewitness, this book is a shorthand masterpiece about imperialism and a country critical to our understanding of the last century in Europe.
Robert D. Kaplan is the author of 16 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, Balkan Ghosts, and Warrior Politics. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over three decades. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world's "100 Top Global Thinkers".
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- North Yorkshire
- 27-12-20
Brilliant mix of history and travelogue
This is Kaplan's 3rd book on Southeast Europe - oddly none of them really overlap. He set the bar high with Balkan Ghosts, raised it in the excellent Eastward to Tartary and now matches both books with In Europe's Shadow. His books tend to be based around his own travels in the region, but his distinctive contribution is to provide a wider historical and cultural context for the political, economic and social conditions he encounters in each particular nation or region. As several reviewers note the historical background does tend to crowd out the travelogue part, which is used to help structure and sequence his mini historical studies - though his interviews do tie in nicely and help manage the pacing for the reader/listener.
Kaplan writes really clearly and has a great understanding of how to pitch his content - we learn a lot but never feel like we are in a lecture. I always enjoy his work. The narration seemed fine to me - not sure why a few reviewers took against it.
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- leonard iancu
- 08-12-19
Brilliant
Everyone interested in the Romanian history, every Romanian on Audiobook should listen to it. Written by someone who obviously loves Romania and it's people. Some uncomfortable truths, a geopolitical analysis of Romania's position in Europe.
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- amotherandstudent
- 03-06-17
Fascinating history lesson
clearly written by someone who knows and loves Romania. fascinating and easy to listen to.
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- Ovidiu
- 25-08-17
The hard truth!
Past, present and a possible future due to the geopolitical location of Romania. A book that you should read/listen even if you are the biggest Romanian nationalist!
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- Martin
- 07-06-18
Super interesting!
This is a super interesting and highly engaging history of Romania. For those who seek to understand the region and Europe a little better, this is an essential listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-10-21
Trite, not worth the time
Extremely boring, bringing nothing to the table apart from a basic travel log. God knows what the author filled 10 hours with, I could only stomach 1.5.
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- P GEAMANU
- 06-09-18
A Yelp Review of Romania
A book version of a Yelp review by a author than comes off as biased on multiple occasions. If you're looking for facts and history, this is not it. But if you're looking for a single person's brief experieces in Romania and a mixture of facts and biases, please buy it. A great part of this book describes the authors 10 days spent in romania during the cold war... in the rest of the book, the Jewish author, spends a great deal of time picking apart Iliade's (a well known Nazi lover)previous history books. Enjoy!
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- ANON
- 05-01-20
terrible narration
really poor narrator, difficult to listen to. sounds like the guy had never read the book before being recorded. or he's a robot.
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