ARGONAUT BOOKS

A history of modern Romania, a country whose fate it has been to experience some of the most disastrous dictatorships of the last century. This is also a personal discovery of an extraordinary country. Reviews Kenyon relates all this with verve [and] humour... He patiently untangles the complicated webs of loyalty and enmity, that crisscrossed the royal court, the military camarilla and the politburo alike'Literary ReviewA witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque charactersMisha GlennyPaul Kenyon sweeps away the myths of romance and horror that cling to this fa...Read More