Description
Three Variants of Socialism
Histories Written in Blood
The Hungarian Experiment
Czechoslovakia’s Cautious Path
Poland: a Nation in Torment
As this book makes clear, nowhere is the
current of defiance stronger than in Poland,
where the continent’s most staunchly sup-
ported Catholic Church is also a rallying point
for nationalists and supporters of the banned
trade union Solidarity. But the conflict
between State and people also continues to
haunt Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Eastern
Europe will help you understand the continuing
strains that rend three countries each trying in
its own way to live in the shadow of a vast and
intrusive neighbour.
Library of Nations brings the world to your
bookshelves. Each volume-taking as its
theme a single nation or a group of nations-
presents a clear and concise picture of the life of
the people who live there and the part they play
in the world today. The reader is introduced to
the history and culture that have shaped
current lifestyles, while interviews, profiles
and informed analysis provide in sights into
the outlook, hopes and fears of the inhabitants
of each country.
Every book is illustrated with more than 100
colour photographs, many of them specially
commissioned, to show the character of the
land and of those who live there. Maps and
charts provide essential geographic and stat-
istical data, and combine with the text to ex-
plain each country’s way oflife.and the part it
plays in the web of interconnecting national
destinies that lie behind the daily news.
In excellent preloved condition.
160 pages.
Hardcover.
