The Portugal Story

ISBN-13: 9780385513630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 424 str.

John Roderigo Dos Passos

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This selective history of Portugal reflects the author s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author s travels and archival research.
Dos Passos, writes historian J. H. Plumb, brings to his material a novelist s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know. "