A clever and curious mind is behind this engaging work. Fidler, who first visited Prague during the Velvet Revolution, moves from the medieval origins to the uncertainties of the present day.
The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague
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Edition:Hardback978073333526612/11/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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A meticulous history of a Highland family that acquired huge estates in Pembrokeshire by marriage and in Carmarthenshire by an inheritance. Undoubtedly academic, rather disappointingly illus... read more
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The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more
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His 'Shortest History of Germany' was a great bestseller a few years ago. What will the Scots, Welsh and Irish say about this?
The Shortest History of England
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London has twelve vast railway termini. What was involved in their construction (between 1836 and 1900), and what did they do to London?