Following on from Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history.
Simon Winder is the author of the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain and the Sunday Times top-ten bestseller Germania. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town.
A master of the art of making history both funny and fun . . . Once
again he brings Germany bouncing back to life
*Simon Jenkins, author of A Short History of Europe*
Winder is our guide with delicious festive wit, and equal
erudition
*Tablet*
Weird and wonderful . . . No Briton has written better than Winder
about Europe
*Sunday Times*
There is so much fascinating detail in this book that it is hard to
put down . . .
*Michael Burleigh, author of The Best of Times, The Worst of
Times: A History of Now*
Winder looks afresh at the long arc of European history, with its
perpetual interplay between defiant local units and grandiose
attempts at unifying schemes
*Guardian*
The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder.
Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of
history writing, travel writing and disrespect
*TLS*
Brings to mind PJ O'Rourke's Holidays in Hell or anything by Bill
Bryson
*The Times*
A heady blend of jolly travel stories, weird German aristocrats,
obscure baroque altarpieces and horrendous sectarian massacres.
There are plenty of serious points here, but Winder never forgets
that history is meant to be fun
*Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times, Best History Books of
the year 2019*
An absolutely wonderful hybrid of hilarious travel writing and
incisive historical analysis . . . Lotharingia follows on the
acclaimed Danubia and Germania
*Quillette*
It's not so much history, as a long cultural tour, led by a
brilliantly witty guide . . . There are a great many jokes and
irreverent hoots, in case everything gets too earnest . . .
*Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books*
Simon Winder has created a genre all of his own, the
history-travelogue-memoir, which he uses adeptly to explore the
hinterlands between France and Germany and their centuries of
dynasties, discord and discontent . . .
*Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian House and
Christmas: A Biography*
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