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From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe´s lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times.

Europe´s history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ´Empire of Aragon´? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original and enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries.

´Dazzling, provocative and brilliant´ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the Year

´A luminous account ... there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours and horrors of Europe´s past than through the pages of this wise, humane and unfailingly engaging book´ John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph

´Vanished Kingdoms is great history and also great art. It is written with verve, passion and profound empathy´ David Marquand, New Statesman, Books of the Year

´A magnificent achievement. Brocaded with scholarship, the book is unlikely ever to be equalled´ Ian Thomson, Independent

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Davies, Norman
Norman Davies was for many years a professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University. He is the author of the acclaimed Vanished Kingdoms and the number one bestseller Europe: A History. His previous books, which include Rising ´44, The Isles: A History and God´s Playground: A History of Poland, have been translated worldwide. He has researched at universities from Harvard to Hokkaido, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony´s College, Oxford, and a visiting scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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