Title: It is Europe's most fascinating country!
Product review: I picked this book up because I'm going to Spain for 10 days and I wanted background. What a page-turner. All those people hovering around the perifery of my historical knowlege are examined and put into perspective in the history of Spain: Cervantes, Goya, Velezquez, the Holy Grail, Sephardic Jews, Muslims, the Alhambra, Catherine of Aragon,the Altamira Cave, the Roman aqueducts, Napoleon and his brother Joseph (King of Spain, ever so briefly),the Basques,Hadrian again, and on and on. A scholarly synthesis of Spain's history wonderfully written immensely readable and hard to put down.
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