Title: The Berlin Wall - alive and kicking
Product review: It sure looks impressive - 1.8 kg anyway. Davis attempts to introduce the part of the European history towards which the West was (and very successfully still is) absolutely ignorant - i.e. the history of so-called Central and Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, everything is focussed upon the basic assumption that the area known as the Western Europe was the centre of the main great ideas of the European development that spread to the other areas. Stereotypes? Definetely. A feel-good-about-yourself-if-you-belong-to-the-West book? No doubts about that. And it is written well for the mass audience that never bothered to learn a bit more in school than necessary and to which the Berlin Wall remains real even when physically removed. But it still deserves a strong 8 as being a good sample of the pop reading material
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