{"product_id":"in-europes-shadow-two-cold-wars-and-a-thirty-years-journey-through-romania-and-beyond-book-by-robert-d-kaplan","title":"In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Years Journey Through Romania and Beyond\nBook by Robert D. Kaplan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert 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. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a critical, often overlooked country—a country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Europe’s Shadow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the making—the story of a journalist coming of age, and a country struggling to do the same. Through the lens of one country, Kaplan examines larger questions of geography, imperialism, the role of fate in international relations, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere Kaplan illuminates 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 Ceaușescu. Romania past and present are rendered in cinematic prose: the ashen faces of citizens waiting in bread lines in Cold War–era Bucharest; the Bărăgan 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 great thinkers of the past, and with the Romanians of today, the philosophers, priests, and politicians—those who struggle to keep the flame of humanism alive in the era of a resurgent Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Europe’s Shadow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of an ideological and geographic frontier—and the book you must read in order to truly understand the crisis Europe faces, from Russia and from within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Europe’s Shadow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania . . . Kaplan’s account of the centuries leading up to the most turbulent of all—the twentieth—is both sweeping and replete with alluring detail.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Alison Smale, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book reveals the confident, poetical Kaplan . . . but also a reflective, political Kaplan, seeking at times to submerge his gift for romantic generalization in respectful attention to the ideas of others.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Timothy Snyder,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A serious yet impassioned survey of Romania . . . Kaplan is a regional geographer par excellence.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kaplan is one of America’s foremost writers on the region. . . . In a series of deep dives into the region’s past—Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg and Soviet—he finds parallels and echoes that help us understand the present.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kaplan moves seamlessly from sights, sounds, and conversations to the resonance of history.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55423121260835,"sku":null,"price":360.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55423121293603,"sku":null,"price":490.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55423121326371,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_ea7088f5-d2c8-4b4b-9e41-d16be721c57a.jpg?v=1785872736","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/in-europes-shadow-two-cold-wars-and-a-thirty-years-journey-through-romania-and-beyond-book-by-robert-d-kaplan","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}