IN EUROPE'S SHADOW

Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but few Westerners were paying attention. What ensued was a lifelong obsession with a cri tical, often overlooked countrya country that, today, is key to understanding the current threat that Russia poses to Europe. In Eu ropes Shadow is a vivid blend of memoir, travelogue, journalism, and history, a masterly work thirty years in the makingthe story of a journal...[Read more]