In Europe

a colloquial term for a person from the former West Germany.
    Wilhelm II , known as Kaizer Wilhelm (1859—1941): last German Emperor and King of Prussia 1888—1918. Supported Austria-Hungary following the assassination of his close friend
Franz Ferdinand
in a conflict which developed into the
First World War
. Abdicated in 1918 and went into exile in the Netherlands.
    Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich , (b.1931): Russian statesman and first President of the Russian Federation 1991—99. Employed ‘shock therapy’ reforms with the massive privatisation of state-run enterprises to introduce democracy and a market-based economy. Resigned in 1999 and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.

Translation copyright © 2007 by Sam Garrett
    All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in the Netherlands as
In Europa
by Uitgeverij Atlas, Amsterdam, copyright © 2004 by Geert Mak. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Random House Group Ltd., London. This translation published by arrangement with Harvill Secker, an imprint of Random House Group Ltd., London.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Mak, Geert.
    [In Europa. English]
    In Europe: travels through the twentieth century / Geert Mak.
    p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    eISBN: 978-0-307-49609-6
    1. Europe—History—20th century. 2. Europe— Description and travel. 3. Mak, Geert—Travel—Europe. 4. Journalists—Netherlands—Diaries. 5. Historians— Netherlands—Diaries. I. Title.
    D424M3513 2007 940.5—dc22 2007009260
    Maps by Peter Palm, Berlin, Germany
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