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“What is the scene or incident in European history that you

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

Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical

Publications, a producer of books in history for adults and for

children. Previously, he was president of American Heritage

Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. He was

publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

and Time Machine: American History for Kids, and edited I

Wish I'd Been There, which Anchor published in 2007.

Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of history emeritus at Princeton

University. He is the author of The Struggle for Stability in

Early Modern Europe and The Last Days of the

Renaissance, among other books. Rabb was the principal

historical adviser and commentator for the Emmy-nominated PBS

series Renaissance and wrote the series's companion book,

Renaissance Lives.

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媒体评论

“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.”

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Times Literary Supplement

“This sound, quirky, and savory offering will kindle the

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书籍介绍

“What is the scene or incident in European history that you 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.