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Richard Bassett: Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 [2019] hardback Condition:New But Castro instead created an'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh Fermors and Bassanis and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist) Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and Spectator In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg