Inside Europe (War Edition)

Inside Europe (War Edition)

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John Gunther's brilliant study of personalities and politics in contemporary Europe has already, in the few years since its first appearance, achieved the status of a classic.
It is a portrait gallery of European dictators and statesmen of the 1930's and early '40's, their rivals and associates and underlings. But it is also much more than that. For the men personify polic...more
Hardcover, Completely Revised, 606 pages
Published 1940 by Harper & Brothers (first published 1933)
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Mickey
This was one of my favorite books growing up. I enjoyed the author's point of view. He was knowledgeable about the places he wrote about, and was not afraid to predict, even when it turned out faulty. He has an old world charm that I find refreshing.
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Inside Europe ( New and Revised Edition)
Inside Europe
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John Gunther was born on August 30, 1901 on the North Side of Chicago. He was one of the best known and most admired journalists of his day, and his series of "Inside" books, starting with Inside Europe in 1936, were immensely popular profiles of the major world powers. One critic noted that it was Gunther's special gift to "unite the best qualities of the newspaperman and the historian." It was a...more
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