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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-     Subjects     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- Romania.     Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946.     Ceaușescu, Nicolae.     Romania -- History -- 1944-1989.     Romania -- History -- 1989-     Romania -- Social conditions -- 1945-1989.     Romania -- Social conditions -- 1989-     Romania -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-       by title:      In Europe's shadow :...       by call number:      949.8 K17i     Search the Web     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- Romania.     Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946.     Ceaușescu, Nicolae.     Romania -- History -- 1944-1989.     Romania -- History -- 1989-     Romania -- Social conditions -- 1945-1989.     Romania -- Social conditions -- 1989-     Romania -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

In Europe's shadow : two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond / Robert D. Kaplan. by Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Random House, [2016] Call #: 949.8 K17i Subjects Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- Romania.   Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946.   Ceaușescu, Nicolae.   Romania -- History -- 1944-1989.   Romania -- History -- 1989-   Romania -- Social conditions -- 1945-1989.   Romania -- Social conditions -- 1989-   Romania -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9780812996814 (hc.) 081299681X (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xxxvi, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Bucharest 1981 -- Bucharest 2013 -- Latin Byzantium -- The Baragan Steppe -- The great cemetery of the Jews -- The Pontic breach -- Crossing the Carpathians -- Fisherman's bastion. Summary:  "A riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries -- and an examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate. Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. Romania is today a key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. A blend of memoir and history, a work thirty years in the making, the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more. The fusion of the Latin West and the Greek East that created Romania, the country that gave rise to Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during World War II, and the country that was home to the most brutal strain of Communism under Nicolae Ceausescu. Romania past and present: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War-era Bucharest; the Baragan Steppe, laid bare by centuries of foreign invasion; the grim labor camps of the Black Sea Canal; the majestic Gothic church spires of Transylvania and Maramureş. Kaplan finds himself in dialogue with the philosophers, priests, and politicians -- those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia. Upon his return to Romania in 2013 and 2014, Kaplan found the country transformed yet again -- now a traveler's destination shaped by Western tastes, yet still emerging from the long shadows of Hitler and Stalin. Robert Kaplan is the author of Asia's Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 949.8 K17i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 949.8 K17i Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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