Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival,Between East and Westilluminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people.
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag- A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and a columnist for the Washington Post. She divides her time between Britain and Poland.
In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka
and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands
comes to life
*Ryszard Kapuscinski*
A vivid and penetrating assessment of the lands between the Baltic
and the Black Sea in all their drama and desolation . . . A wise
and useful book
*Robert Conquest*
Between East and West combines the excitement of a well-written and
adventurous travelogue with sophisticated reportage about one of
Europe's least-known regions
*Norman Davies*
A beautifully written and thought-provoking account of a journey
along Europe's forgotten edge
*Timothy Garton Ash*
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