Norman Davies

The Dnieper rapids and why Putin does not belong in Ukraine

Even the country’s East is not natively Russian

The Dnieper rapids c. 1920
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Norman Davies
Norman Davies is professor emeritus at University College London, an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and the author of several books on Polish and European history.

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