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'A fascinating story' Antony Beevor, Spectator
Norman Davies C. M. G., F. B. A. is a Professor Emeritus of the University of London, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of several books on Polish and European history, including God's Playground, Europe and The Isles. Roger Moorhouse, who is a Germanist and historian, was chief researcher on Davies's previous books. Since Microcosm he has published two solo books: Killing Hitler and, most recently, Berlin at War. He is a regular contributor to the BBC History Magazine and History Today, a book reviewer for the Independent on Sunday, and an occasional commentator on television and radio
This big, lucidly written and fact-filled book admirably achieves
its purpose... Anyone who enjoyed Norman Davies's...The Isles will
recognise the same qualities in this book: a gift for broad
exposition, a marvellous eye for quirky but revelatory details,
and, above all, a willingness to question the categories of
traditional history, wherever they may come from.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Absorbing...clear...and persuasive...as even-handed, erudite and
enlightening as history can be.
*Herald*
Microcosm tells the story of the city across the centuries. While
not neglecting ethnic hatred and folly, the book is a hymn to
diversity and cultural achievement.
*Economist*
The city is fortunate to have found such chroniclers as Davies and
Roger Moorhouse.
*Sunday Times*
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