Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and Spectator In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious diplomats and glamorous informants provided him with an unexpected counterpoint to the austerities of life along the Iron Curtain, first as a professional musician and then as a for Last Days in Old Europe - Richard Bassett od authora Richard Bassett a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.