
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised & updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall & remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia & Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europe`s largest & most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions & one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to two world wars & the Cold War. Zamoyski`s fully revised history of Poland looks back over a thousand years of turmoil & triumph, chronicling how Poland has been restored at last to its rightful place in Europe.