As befits a journalist with an eye for bad news, he also has much more to say on its calamitous first half than on its more successful second half.

• 就像每个记者都有一双发现坏事的眼睛，在马克的书中占据更多篇幅的也同样是20世纪前半期那个多灾多难的欧洲，而不是相对成功的后半世纪。