In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Written by Robert D. Kaplan
Narrated by Paul Boehmer
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Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Good American, The Revenege of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paralela intre Romania de dinainte de Revolutie si cea de dupa e foarte buna. Si vizita prin Republica Moldova si comparatia cu Romania e bine facuta. Foarte buna carte. De fapt, am cautat si alte carti de acelasi autor
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extremely well-written and still very relevant considering the ongoing war in Ukraine. Kaplan is the modern master of the Balkans and his writing on Romania does the country justice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kaplan is clearly a brilliant writer with a global outlook borne of much traveling as a young man bent on being a reporter & student of history. His illustrious life & career is documented in Wikipedia. I read the book to try and understand better the current Russian special military operation in Ukraine. The story of Romania after World War 2 is a very sad tale as told by the author. It illustrates the economic stupidity & inhumanity of the totalitarian Marxist-Leninist ideology. I believe Russia, China, Vietnam are no longer run by Communist governments. They have learnt from their past failures. I would like to read more of what Kaplan has to say about Ukraine after reading this extraordinary political & cultural history of Rumania. 5 stars.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is why I read.One of his best and they are all good. Once again Kaplan opens up new vistas in a familiar world. A well rounded personal take on the history and current politics of Central Eurpoe and Romania in particular. More new references and books to read including Fermors final book which I didnt know was written. Kaplan is in his 60's now but I hope he has a few more in him.He is not Fermor or Byron but he holds his own in that crowd.