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. In 1797 Russia Prussia and
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 and most richly varied born of diverse cultural traditions and
one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to
two world wars and the Cold War. Zamoyski's fully revised history of Poland looks back over a
thousand years of turmoil and triumph chronicling how Poland has been restored at last to its
rightful place in Europe.
