Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

by NormanDavies (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2001

  $19.10

  The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes. His evocative account reveals Poland as the heart of Europe in more than the geographical sense. It is a country where Europe's ideological conflicts are played out in their most acute form: as recent events have emphasized, Poland's fate is of vital concern to European civilization as a whole. This revised and updated edition tackles and analyses the issues arising from the fall of the Eastern Block, and looks at Poland's future within a political climate of democracy and free market.

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $5.34

  The startling political developments within Poland since 1980 have found many commentators in the West, though few have had the means to look beneath the surface and to glimpse the depth and antiquity of the issues involved in its current predicament. This book provides a key to understanding the social and political inheritance of modern Poland, whose present conflict is shown to be but only latest round in a series of Russo-Polish struggles stretching back nearly three centuries.