The Gates of Europe

Resumen del libro

'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (Sunday Telegraph) from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Fascinating and multilayered, The Gates of Europe is the essential guide to understanding not just Ukraine's past but also its future.

Biografía del autor

Serhii Plokhy es catedrático de Historia en la Universidad de Harvard, donde dirige el Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Es autor de una vasta obra académica y divulgativa y está considerado como una de las voces más autorizadas para hablar de la historia de Ucrania y de la Unión Soviética. Es autor de Las puertas de Europa, también en Península.