Historian and author of many critically acclaimed books including God’s Playground. A History of Poland (1981), Europe: A History (1996), Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory (2006), Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (2011). Norman Davies has been awarded Poland’s Order of the White Eagle and in Britain the CMG ‘for services to history’. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities in Britain and Poland as well as the honorary citizenship of five cities. (2014)