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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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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 Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and Romania was a Communist backwater where "history had virtually stopped" since World War II. In Bucharest, Romania's capital, Kaplan discovered that few Westerners were reporting on the country-one of the darkest corners of Europe during the Cold War. In an intense and cinematic travelogue, Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing, rather than left-wing; a country that gave rise to the dictator Ion Antonescu, Hitler's chief foreign accomplice during WWII; a country where the Latin West mixes with the Greek East, producing a fascinating fusion of cultures. In Europe's Shadow is a deep and vivid immersion into one place, a country that is a metaphor for Europe's current challenge in confronting Vladimir Putin's Russia. With the brilliant, insightful Kaplan as our narrator and eyewitness, this book is a shorthand masterpiece about imperialism and a country critical to our understanding of the last century in Europe. Robert D. Kaplan is the author of 16 books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including the The Revenge Of Geography; Monsoon; Balkan Ghosts; and Warrior Politics. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over three decades. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world's "100 Top Global Thinkers."
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 2, 2016
ISBN9781681680637
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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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 stars
    5/5
    Paralela 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 stars
    5/5
    Extremely 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 stars
    5/5
    Kaplan 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 stars
    5/5
    This 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.