Adam Zamoyski initially wrote his history of Poland 2 years prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This significantly modified and upgraded edition sets the Soviet age in the context of the increase, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable country. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewording Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. The country they wiped off the map had actually been one of Europe’s largest and most richly differed, born of varied cultural customs and one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its damage eventually led to 2 world wars and the Cold War. Zamoyski’s totally revised history of Poland looks back over a thousand years of chaos and accomplishment, chronicling how Poland has been brought back at last to its rightful place in Europe.
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