The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

Contents\nIllustrations\nIntroduction: Seven Symbolic Quarters\nWARSAW\nChapter 1. Market to Monument\nChapter 2. Soldier-Architects\nChapter 3. Go to the Forests, or Get to Work\nChapter 4. A Brigade of Goldsmiths\nChapter 5. The Whole Nation Is Building Its Capital City\nChapter 6. The Stones Speak Polish\nChapter 7. We Will Come to Believe in It Ourselves\nWÜRZBURG\nChapter 8. Christmas Trees in Lent\nChapter 9. The U-Boat Cathedral Roof\nROTHENBURG OB DER TAUBER\nChapter 10. A Wall Round the Whole Place\nChapter 11. Half-Timber Angst\nChapter 12. What the Iron Wolf Meant\nChapter 13. Wilno, Vilna, Vilne, Vilnius\nMIDDLE EUROPE\nChapter 14. Stumbling Stones\nLUBLIN\nChapter 15. We Patiently Explain\nPRAGUE\nChapter 16. If the Twentieth Century Had Not Happened\nFRANKFURT AM MAIN\nChapter 17. The New Old Town\nMIDDLE EUROPE\nChapter 18. What Stories They Could Tell\nAcknowledgements\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex