ISBN10: 0007556217, ISBN13: 9780007556212, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London] Softcover Paperback. A substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture', which has been out of print since 2001. No nation's history has been so distorted as that of Poland. In 1797 Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the country up among themselves, expunging Polands sovereignty from history, casting it as a backwater that needed civilising. But as Adam Zamoyskis thrilling history shows, the country they had wiped off the map had been one of Europes largest and most varied in cultural and religious traditions, with one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction initiated a series of struggles that culminated in the two world wars and the Cold War. Today, Poland has been restored to its rightful place as one of the most vigorous nations of Europe, and is perfectly captured in this full revision Adam Zamoyski's classic The Polish Way. Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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