Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface The Lands that became Poland The Consolidation of the Polish Kingdom The Jagiellonian Period The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Under Foreign Rule War and Independence: 1914-1939 The Second World War and the Establishment of Communism in Poland From Communism to Democracy Further Reading Index.

List of Maps Preface The Lands that became Poland The Consolidation of the Polish Kingdom The Jagiellonian Period The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Under Foreign Rule War and Independence: 1914-1939 The Second World War and the Establishment of Communism in Poland From Communism to Democracy Further Reading Index

About the Author

ANITA J. PRAZMOWSKA is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, UK, and is the author of several books on Poland's place in the modern world.