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Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The Heart of Europe

As European democracy comes under pressure once again, this series explores the histories that have shaped present culture and conflict across the continent.

Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The Heart of Europe

About Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The Heart of Europe

Tracing lines across the map and through time, novelists, historians and politicians examine subjects from the Ottoman empire, to the Soviet era, the East-West divide, and culture in thriving hubs today.

Jonathan Freedland: The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
Saturday 13 August 13:00 - 14:00

Rupert Thomson: Homage to Catalonia
Monday 15 August 10:15 - 11:15

Iain MacGregor: Stalingrad Revisited
Tuesday 16 August 20:15 - 21:15

Serhii Plokhy with Allan Little: Ukraine at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia
Tuesday 16 August 20:30 - 21:30

Kirsty Bell: If Berlin Walls Could Talk
Wednesday 17 August 12:15 - 13:15

Jakuta Alikavazovic with Allan Little: Lives Shaped by War
Friday 19 August 10:15 - 11:15

Marc David Baer: The World Was Theirs
Saturday 20 August 10:15 - 11:15

Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands
Sunday 21 August 13:00 - 14:00

Close Read: Chitra Ramaswamy on Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Monday 22 August 10:30 - 12:00

James Birch: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Thursday 25 August 13:00 - 14:00

Gideon Rachman, Andrew Wilson & Lea Ypi: Follow the Leader
Thursday 25 August 20:00 - 21:00

Lea Ypi with Allan Little: What Does Freedom Mean in Europe?
Friday 26 August 16:00 - 17:00

Fatima Daas & Shumona Sinha: Immigrants in Paris
Friday 26 August 16:15 - 17:15

Discretion: A Performance on Independence and Exile
Sunday 28 August 19:00 - 20:15

Elena Pala, John Retallack & Sandro Veronesi: The World of the Hummingbird
Monday 29 August 10:30 - 12:00

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