"In synthesizing and evaluating an enormous body of scholarship, not only on Europe, East and West, but also on the wider world and the globalisation processes that have so deeply affected European history, Ian Kershaw has produced a historical masterpiece."
Ian Kershaw is nice to read and gives a good overview over European history.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/279961/roller-coaster-by-ker...
"In synthesizing and evaluating an enormous body of scholarship, not only on Europe, East and West, but also on the wider world and the globalisation processes that have so deeply affected European history, Ian Kershaw has produced a historical masterpiece."
(Times Literary Supplement)