Fifty Years of Europe: An Album

not the fluent prose I have come to expect of Jan Morris, a very staccato style of writing. Essentially a collection of snapshots from her travels through Europe. Although there are at times common threads which make connections between the different 'chapters' (and I use that term loosely!), I found this quite disjointed and difficult to read.

From its convenient base in Trieste, this book covers all the nations, powers, mish-mash and internet(physical) of Europe, with various interregns for things such as stateless peoples, flags, parliaments, food...
A wide canvass, a labour of a lifetime, and, yes, of love.
A superb book on Europe on the second half of the XXth century, but going much further back, until pre-historic times. And with almost flawless hindsight hinting at a possible/probable future unity of all the countries so personally dissected. Unity that is now for most of them a reality.