European Tour Reading List!

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MidLifeCrisis2017 · 17/04/2017 20:20

Sorry, not as grand as it sounds.

I'm driving a motor home round Europe on my own for five months and would like to read some books, fiction or non fiction, relevant to the countries I'm visiting. I'm interested in modern history if that helps at all. The countries are:

The Netherlands
Belgium
France
Italy
Croatia
Montenegro
Albania
Greece

I hope.....

Thanks

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BarbaraofSeville · 18/04/2017 09:45

sounds amazing.

I've read loads of travel books and a lot generally touch on the history of the places visited, so hopefully some of these will tick some boxes?

Belgium - A Tall Man in a Low Land by Harry Pearson
Albania - One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks

French Revolutions by Tim Moore

There's also a book called The Balkan Odyssey by Jason Smart.

www.amazon.co.uk/Balkan-Odyssey-Travels-Yugoslavia-Albania-ebook/dp/B00DQ6V324/ref=pd_sim_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZHW2EP8VRYKGAD9MH8WR&tag=mumsnetforum-21

Clovis1 · 18/04/2017 08:43

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tobee · 18/04/2017 00:32

How about The Beauty and the Sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund? It's contains first hand accounts, diaries etc in chronological order of experiences during the war. Unsurprisingly it contains accounts from Britain and Germany, which are not on your list but also includes France, Belgium, Italy etc. It's quite a tome but I found it fascinating. In a similar, but different vein, is 1913: The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies which is an often very amusing account of various novelists, philosophers, playwrights and artists and what they were up to throughout that year, including young Adolf Hitler. They do concern the same period but are more European centred than British.

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