PositiveFinancial Times (UK)\"Drozdiak’s is a largely admiring account of how Mr Macron recovered his poise after the gilets jaunes protests to become Europe’s most ambitious and visionary leader. Drawing mostly on newspaper reports, interviews with Élysée Palace advisers and the president himself, Drozdiak gives us a tidy primer on Mr Macron’s sophisticated world view ... It is a coherent and in many ways compelling argument. The question is whether it really needs distilling, since the president frequently and eloquently makes it himself, including in the pages of the Financial Times.
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Simon Winder
RaveThe Financial TimesLotharingia is a hybrid of conventional history and waspish travelogue delivered at a cracking pace. Winder’s meanderings...enliven his racy narrative. They convey a real sense of place and continuity ... Purists might dismiss Winder’s work as Horrible Histories for adults. He certainly has an eye for the absurd, the stupid and the cruel. But his erudition is beyond doubt. His mission is to engage and entertain. His numerous tangents still manage to grip the reader ... Winder is fascinated by the quirks of geography, the enclaves and exclaves and micro-kingdoms of Lotharingia. This is a quirky book. But it is also an intelligent treatment of the vanities of (mostly) men and a thousand years of often pointless bloodshed.
