Direct Beschikbaar The gates of Europe – Serhii Plokhy

‘An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation’ (David Blair Sunday Telegraph )
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires – Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian – and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century …