Richard Bassett

Praise for Last Days in Old Europe

If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...

Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre

With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis

Economist

A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe

Victor Sebestyen, Evening Standard

If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...

Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre

With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis

Economist

A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe

Victor Sebestyen, Evening Standard

If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...

Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre

With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis

Economist

A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe

Victor Sebestyen, Evening Standard