Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Glass Wall

Glass Wall

Egremont, Max

Paperback

Baltic HistoryEastern European HistoryRussian History

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1250863163
ISBN13: 9781250863164
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

Biographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the Glass Wall between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.

Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic region. Caught between the giants of Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or retreated, small nations like Latvia and Estonia were for centuries the subjects of conquests and domination as foreign colonizers claimed control of the territory and its inhabitants, along with their religion, government, and culture.

The Glass Wall features an extraordinary cast of characters--contemporary and historical, foreign and indigenous--who have lived and fought in the Baltic, western Europe's easternmost stronghold. Too often the destiny of this region has seemed to be to serve as the front line in other people's wars. By telling the stories of warriors and victims, of philosophers and barons, of poets and artists, of rebels and emperors, and of others who lived through years of turmoil and violence, Max Egremont sets forth a brilliant account of a long-overlooked region, on a frontier whose limits may still be in doubt.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Egremont, Max

View All

Also in

Baltic History

View All