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Davies and Moorhouse intend their account of what is today Wroclaw to illustrate the history of one particular city but also to illuminate the general history of Central Europe through this one microcosm. They don't always succeed in their aim. At times the task of yoking together the minutiae of the city's life with its place in a broader history seems an impossible one. It is likely that the general reader will not be as interested in, say, lists of great alumni of Breslau's 19th-century university, as he or she will be in the narrative of Breslau in World War II. The book works best for the general reader when it most justifies its title; it works much less well when it seems most like some kind of official city history.--Nick Rennison -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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“No history of Europe has been so even-handed in its treatment of east and west.” -- TLS
“A fascinating story.” -- Antony Beevor, The Spectator
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In doing so, however, a major flaw of the book is exposed. In attempting to present the most multicultural side of the Island City to the world, the authors do not delve deep enough into the German roots of Vratislavia. This is exemplified in the rather paltry account of the Ostkolonisierung and the initial arrival of German settlement in Silesia. While mentioned in passing (and even accorded a map as an appendix), the city seems to just suddenly transform into a "German city". As this migration formed the basis of 600-700 years of the city's history, this pivotal migration could have been presented in much more detail. Second, German culture's unique Silesian expression is not delved into as carefully as one could hope for - especially in a book dedicated to its bastion. Very little is mentioned about local (German) traditions and culture. This is extremely unfortunate as the Silesian variant of German culture has been, through the 1945-47 expulsion, completely exterminated - a book about the history of Breslau should have chronicled its cultural idiosyncrasies given that they were so suddenly and inhumanely erased. Perhaps a more exact overview of Breslau as a city - for example, explaining the difference between each city district - could have given a true feeling of how life was like in the now extinct Breslau. In short, had Davies and Moorhouse, in their final version, paid as much attention to German Silesian culture as they did to its Polish and Jewish counterpart, a much more accurate picture of Breslau as a city, and Silesia as a region, could have been gleaned.
Finally, the authors also delve into some extremely dangerous "suffering comparisons" between Polish and German expulsions between 1945-47, with the book seeming to insinuate that Polish expellees had a "tougher time' - not only because of longer periods of transit during expulsion, but also because Polish expellees, in the ruins of Wroclaw, were deprived of organising expellee organisations. This questionable approach to a still painful chapter in European history, unfortunately, depreciates the book's otherwise fine record of portraying an even-handed history of the city. A fine historian such as Davies should have known better.
Despite such critique, however, "Microcosm" is an excellent historical survey that sheds some much needed light on one of Europe's more fascinating cities.
Norman Davies also has a great knack for writing his books assuming that you already know a lot of history. Sometimes I do not and he leaves me there high and dry grasping for facts.
This book gives you a continuity in European history where everything changes and still stays the same.
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