Loved it. Was a bit sceptical at first as there are a few books around about borderlands, but this hit the spot for me. Lewis Baston is particularly interested in Central Europe and the Habsburg territories (and what has become of them), so straight away this is tailor-made for me. He travels around Mitteleuropa full of curiosity, logs what he sees and the tragedies that nationalism, fascism and communism have inflicted on people, and covers new ground (for me anyway), looking at the Czech-Polish border for example rather than more well known areas of dispute like Croatia-Serbia.
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