THE MUST-READ BOOK ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND DAILY
EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Magnificent ... As exciting to read as it is important ' Peter
Frankopan 'Fascinating ... essential reading ' Helen Thompson 'Alarming and uplifting '
John Kampfner The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years. These nine
borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression they are also a
factory of ideas for how to revive Europe. Shaped by the past one hundred years each Baltic
country offers lessons in adaptability hope and prosperity in an era of instability.
Innovation in Estonia patience in Finland resilience in Poland even poetry in Latvia: with
their tumultuous pasts and exposed geography these poorly understood frontline states are
reconfiguring the balance of power around the heart of Eurasia. From pioneering environmental
initiatives and world-leading innovations in technology to ever-growing economies from
tackling disinformation to tempering the populist right the Baltic states are now key to
understanding how political events might unfold in the coming years. Blending history
politics and reportage this is the first book to explain why these are some of our most
imaginative allies yet most of us know so little about them. Interviewing prime ministers
presidents generals intelligence officers business leaders and ordinary people Oliver Moody
traces the extraordinary emergence of a new fulcrum of great-power rivalry. But the real reason
we need to understand them is that their fate is ours.
