Title: Disappointing
Product review: This book has been a huge best-seller in the U.K. where I presently reside. Since my wife and I will spend the next 2 years touring Europe, it seemed like an ideal purchase. I was very disappointed and felt that I had wasted my money. The book rambles and is overly verbose. Further, inordinate attention is placed on the author's speciality area: Eastern Europe. If you are interested in an alternative I would highly recommend The History of Europe by Oxford's John Roberts. That book is better written and does a superior job of illuminating the mechanisms underlying the continent's great historic changes. I would score it a 10.
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