Timothy Snyder

Between the woods and the water

Serhii Plokhy's work explains how this vast, once distant steppe between forest and sea is now regarded as ‘the Gates of Europe’

issue 09 January 2016

  • The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

    Serhii Plokhy

    Allen Lane, pp. 395

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