Richard Bassett: Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 [2019] hardback Condition:New There she is using an

There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow

and child of the Holocaust - must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present

Founded in the dark days of 1940

dazzling' Lauren Groff

Richard Bassett: Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 [2019] hardback Condition:New There she is using an'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh Fermors and Bassanis and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist) Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and Spectator In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg