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The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests. In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse have made a case study of one of its most colourful cities, the former German Breslau, which became the Polish Wroclaw after the Second World War.
The traditional capital of the province of Silesia rose to prominence a thousand years ago as a trading centre and bishopric in Piast Poland. It became the second city of the kingdom of Bohemia, a major municipality of the Habsburg lands, and then a Residenzstadt of the kingdom of Prussia. The third largest city of nineteenth-century Germany, its population reached one million before the bitter siege by the Soviet Army in 1945 wrought almost total destruction. Since then...
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ALSO BY NORMAN DAVIES
The Isles: A History
Europe: A History
Gods Playground: A History of Poland (2 vols)
Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 191920
Silesian Landscape by Carl Friedrich Lessing, 1841 (Kunstmuseum Dsseldorf im Ehrenhof/Landesbildstelle Rheinland).
Lake in the Giant Mountains by Ludwig Richter, 1839 (Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Prince Vratislav I of Bohemia (SUPP, Prague).
Bolesaw Chrobry (Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw).
Duke Henryk VI of Wrocaw (Jakub Kostowski).
St Czesaw (Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocaw).
Charles IV of Luxemburg, artist unknown (AKG London).
Ji z Podiebrady, engraving by J.C. Klupffel (AKG London).
Mtys Corvinus, artist unknown (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Bridgeman Art Library, London).
Louis II Jagellion (collection of Roger Moorhouse).
The marriage of Jadwiga (Hedwig), from The Legend of Jadwiga, c.143040, artist unknown (Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw/Bridgeman Art Library, London).
The battle of Legnica (Liegnitz), from The Legend of Jadwiga, c.143040, artist unknown (Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw/Bridgeman Art Library, London).
Duke Henryk IV of Pressela as Minnesnger (Handschriftenabteilung, University of Heidelberg).
John of Luxemburg at Crcy, artist unknown (Mary Evans Picture Library, London).
Bohemian Hussites vs. Imperial crusaders, from the Jena Codex, artist unknown (Narodni Muzeum, Prague/AKG London).
St. John of Capistrano: Bonfire of Vanities (Norbert Conrads, Historisches Institut, University of Stuttgart).
St. Vincents Monastery on the Elbing (reproduced from Gerhard Scheuermann, Breslau Lexikon, vol. 2, Dlmen: Laumann-Verlag, 1994).
Matthus Merians city plan, 1650 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
Johnnes Cochlaeus by Jean Jacques Boissard (?) (AKG London).
Johnnes Hess (Norbert Conrads, Historisches Institut, University of Stuttgart).
Crato von Crafftheim (University Library, Wrocaw).
Rudolf II of Habsburg (Mary Evans Picture Library, London).
Elizabeth Stuart (collection of Roger Moorhouse).
Lennart Torstenson, engraving by Jeremias Falck, after a painting by David Beck (AKG London).
Andreas Gryphius (University Museum, Wrocaw).
Angelus Silesius (Archdiocesan Museum, Wrocaw).
The Naschmarkt, engraving by G.M. Probst, after a drawing by F.B. Werner (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
Sebastian Mnsters Cosmographica, c.1550 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
The defenestration of Prague, 1618, painting by Wenzel von Brozik, 1889 (AKG London).
Entry into Presslau of Emperor Matthias, c.1612 (Ossolineum, Wrocaw).
Christian Wolff, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth, 1755 (Archiv fr Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin/AKG London).
Maria Leszczyska, lithograph by Franois Seraphin Delpech, after a painting by Jean Marc Nattier (Archiv fr Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin/AKG London).
Frederick II the Great, painting by J.G. Ziesenis (Staatliche Schlsser und Grten, Potsdam/Bridgeman Art Library, London).
Bishop von Schaffgotsch, from Portret wrocawskich duchownych (Archdiocesan Museum, Wrocaw).
Carl von Clausewitz, lithograph after a painting by Wilhelm Wach, c.1820 (AKG London).
August Borsig, c.1850 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
Heinrich Graetz (University Archive, Wrocaw).
Ferdinand Lassalle (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
The Nikolai Gate and Bridge (reproduced from F.G. Wei, Wie Breslau wurde, Breslau, 1906).
The Ohle slums (reproduced from F.G. Wei, Wei Breslau wurde, Breslau, 1906).
The Jesuit College (reproduced from F.G. Wei, Wei Breslau wurde, Breslau, 1906).
The Jewish Quarter on the Karlsplatz, engraving by Steidlin, eighteenth century, after a drawing by F.B. Werner (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz).
Battle of Leuthen (Lutynia), 1757: 3rd Guard Battalion takes the churchyard in Leuthen, watercolour by Carl Rchling, c.1900 (AKG London).
Siege of Breslau, 1757, from R.S. Ben Jochai, Die Historie des Kriegs zwischen den Preussen und den sterreichern , 1758 (AKG London).
Love of the Fatherland 1813 by Gustav Graef: Ferdinande von Schmettau donates her hair (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz).
Departure of the Volunteers from Breslau, 1813 by Adolph Menzel (Herder-Institut, Marburg).
Storming the Bakery in the Neumarkt by Philipp Hoyoll, 1846 (Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg).
Defending the barricades in Breslau, 7 May 1849 (Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocaw; photograph by Edmund Witecki).
Kaiser Wilhelm IIs visit in 1906 (University Library, Wrocaw).
Opening of the Jahrhunderthalle in 1913 (AKG London).
The New Market with Neptune fountain (University Library, Wrocaw).
The City Hall, wood engraving, c.1895, after a painting by Grete Waldau (AKG London).
The Cathedral, c.1911 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
The New Synagogue (Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocaw).
The Main Square and St. Elizabeths Church, c.1905 (Kunstbibliothek, Berlin/Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
The Main Station (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
Blcher Square (University Library, Wrocaw).
Palace Square (University Library, Wrocaw).
Leni Riefenstahl by Eugen Spiro, 1924 (Leni Riefenstahl and Peter Spiro).
Girl and Cat by Balthus, 1937 (private collection/Bridgeman Art Library, London;ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002).
The Gypsy Lovers by Otto Mller (Collection Max Lutze, Hamburg/Bridgeman Art Library, London).
Two Women at the Table (variation) by Oskar Schlemmer, 1930 ( The Oskar Schlemmer Family Estate and Archive, I-28824 Oggebbio (VB); photo: Photo Archive C. Raman Schlemmer, I-28824 Oggebbio, Italy).
Wojciech Korfanty (PAP, Warsaw).
Ra Luksemburg, c.1908 (Mary Evans Picture Library, London).
Fritz Haber, after a lithograph by Emil Orlik (Fotoarchiv Habermann/Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Manfred von Richthofen, by Karl Bauer, 1917 (Mary Evans Picture Library, London).
Edith Stein (Bildarchiv, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Helena Motykwna (Krzysztof Szwagrzyk).
Tadeusz Rewicz (Grzegorz Radzki & Ewa Dessaignes/Polish Cultural Institute, London).
Wadaysaw Frasyniuk (PAP, Warsaw).
The City Hall bedecked, 1938 (Bildarchiv, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Adolf Hitler in Breslau, 1938 (Bildarchiv, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Gauleiter Hanke marshals the Volkssturm, February 1945 (AKG London).
Soviet infantry attack, March 1945 (AKG London).
Cathedral Island without roofs, May 1945 (
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