Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City is a book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse about the history of Wrocław.

The book opens with merciless description of the fall of German Breslau at the very end of the Second World War. Attacking Red Army reduces many streets of the to rubble, the remaining Germans gradually withdraws. Hopeless situation of the civilians, complicated by shelling, temperatures of minus 20 an food shortages, gets even worse as revenge-seeking Soviet military leaders allow mass murder, rape and looting.

The book opens with a description of the prehistoric island settlement in the Oder whose inhabitants took part in the amber and salt trade. The next chapters, named Wrotizla, Vretslav, Presslaw, Breslau and Wroclaw, give exhaustive accounts of the ensuing periods. The authors show impact of European phenomenosns such as pandemics, pogroms, attack by the Mongols, the Hussite Wars, the struggles of the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, Prussian expansionism, the Napoleonic Wars, Nazism and Stalinism.

Apart from the original English the book was also published in the Polish, German and Czech languages.