Simon Дженкинс creates the bright portrait of continent with his imperial ambitions, furious battles and existential fears, that, as an author considers, is inherent to today's Europe the same as in the days of Julius Caesar and Carl Great, Жанны of д'Арк and Бонапарта, Lenin and Черчилля. First of all an author values political history and being in the center of her attention endless race for power. Not changing to chronologic approach and going across from a country to the country, from one historical event or personage to other, Дженкинс expounds history of continent, that brought in, probably, the most considerable contribution to forming of modern civilization. And it is not simple establishment of the accomplished fact : to the last pages the reader of "Short history of Europe" understands, as far as the present of humanity is engrained in his past.

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