THE LOST CONTINENT - Gavin Hewitt on his research
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Channel: Hodder Books · 2013 · Entertainment
Gavin Hewitt, the BBC's Europe Editor and author of THE LOST CONTINENT, talks about the research he did for the book, the stories he heard and the people he met along the way. In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared. A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency, and with it came easy money, seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the financial crash in the United States, Europe caught the cold and was left with a debt crisis that came to threaten the entire European project. Gavin Hewitt's THE LOST CONTINENT is a clear-eyed book by a distinguished and well-connected journalist which tells the astonishing story of how we got here and where we might be headed.
