Ascherson traces political and social events in Poland through the restoration of independence in 1918, the horrors of Nazi and Soviet occupation, the heroic Warsaw uprising and the creation of the Communist state, to their culmination in the rise of Solidarity in 1980 and Jaruselski's coup in 1981.
Ascherson traces political and social events in Poland through the restoration of independence in 1918, the horrors of Nazi and Soviet occupation, the heroic Warsaw uprising and the creation of the Communist state, to their culmination in the rise of Solidarity in 1980 and Jaruselski's coup in 1981.