WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 805

*** ANTHONY PAGDEN: Worlds at War. The 2,500-Year Struggle between East & West. Oxford University Press (Great Clarendon Street, Oxford PX2 6DP - Tél.: [phone] - Fax: 556646 - Internet: www.oup.com). 2008, 548 pp, £20. ISBN 978-0-19-923743-2.

Professor of political science and history at the University of California in Los Angeles, Anthony Pagden explains the long struggle between West and East in this impressive book, written after a breakfast in Cyprus where his wife commented...