Norman Davies was for many years a professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University. He is the author of the acclaimed Vanished Kingdoms and the number one bestseller Europe: A History. His previous books, which include Rising '44, The Isles: A History and God's Playground: A History of Poland, have been translated worldwide. He has researched at universities from Harvard to Hokkaido, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a visiting scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Norman Davies, geb. 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire, ist Professor em. der Universität London, seit 1974 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, seit 1996 Supernumery Fellow am Wolfson College, Oxford und Mitglied der Fakultät für Moderne Geschichte, Oxford University. Er hat zahlreiche Werke zur Geschichte Polens und Europas veröffentlicht.
