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would like to have witnessed-and why?”
In this companion to I Wish I’d Been There: Twenty Historians
Bring to Life the Dramatic Events that Changed America, some of
our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe,
with lively and detailed accounts of some of the most dramatic
events in history. Guided by peerless scholars such as Paul
Kennedy, John Keegan, Ross King, Freeman Dyson, and Katherine
Duncan-Jones, readers will be transported to the signing of Magna
Carta, the Versailles Conference, the German surrender in WWII on
Luneburg Heath, and other key turning points in the drama of
European history. These essays encompass two millenia and an entire
continent, addressing issues of politics, law, religion, peace and
war, science and the arts, and social change, all telescoped into
finely observed narratives. The result is an historical pageant of
characters and episodes that will attract and delight all readers
of history.
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K. Rabb
Josiah Ober · At the Deathbed of Alexander the
Great
Tom Holland · Hannibal Crosses the Alps
Theodore K. Rabb · Christmas Day in the Year
800
John Julius Norwich · Venice, July 24, 1177
Katherine Fischer Drew · Magna Carta and the King’s
Men
Barbara A. Hanawalt · Rebel Leader Confronts King at
Smithfield in 1381
Lauro Martines · Ten Thousand Brutes in Renaissance
Florence
Geoffrey Parker · August 9, 1588: The Spanish Armada
(almost) Surrenders
Katherine Duncan-Jones · The Globe Theatre, February 7,
1601
John H. Elliott · With the Prince of Wales in Madrid,
1623
Mordechai Feingold · By Fits and Starts: The Making of
Isaac Newton’s Principia
Ellen T. Harris · Handel Is Fired
William McNeill · Frederick the Great and the Propagation
of Potatoes
Paul Kennedy · The Battle of the Nile
Ross King · The “Uncouth Riddle” of ?douard Manet: Le
Déjeuner sur l’herbe at the 1863 Salon des Refusés
Richard Pipes · Nicholas II Signs the October
Manifesto
Margaret MacMillan · Tunnels, Territory, and Broken
Promises: France Betrayed by the Anglo-Saxons?
Charles A. Riley II · Backstage at the Ballets Russes
with Picasso
Freeman Dyson · Exorcising Aristotle’s Ghost
John Keegan · The German Surrender to Montgomery at
Lüneburg Heath, May 1945
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
“These essays dazzle with their perspicacity…. History at its
most engaging.”
—The Washington Times
“Rabb and Hollinshead have assembled a formidable array of scholars
to engage in imaginary time travel.”
—Financial Times
“An absolutely sparkling collection: an ideal present for anyone
with historical inclinations.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“This sound, quirky, and savory offering will kindle the
imaginations of armchair historians.”
—Publishers Weekly
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