Lotharingia, Simon Winder
Lotharingia, Simon Winder
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Lotharingia
A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country

Author: Simon Winder

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Unabridged: 18 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/23/2019


Synopsis

Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe.

In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia.

Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simon Winder retraces the various powers that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have lived there for centuries.

About Simon Winder

Simon Winder is the author of three books: the Sunday Times (London) Top Ten Bestseller Germania, the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain, and Danubia, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Due to a loophole in the Selective Service Act which allowed a military exemption for fulltime undergraduate college students, I spent the latter third of Lyndon Johnson's presidency studying history in an obscure corner of West Virginia rather than dodging incoming in the Mekong delta. As a freshma......more

Goodreads review by Hans

De boeken van Simon Winder..Soms word je er gek van (wat is de rode draad?) en dan smul je weer van de meest prachtige anekdotes over Doornik, gekke Duitse vorsten en Franse tombes. Kan ik nog zo’n boek aan van hem? Maar gaat weer mee op vakanties om in iedere stad anekdotes terug te zoeken, net als......more