Cover of the new edition of Jan Karski's "The Great Powers and Poland"
The Great Powers and Poland: from Versailles to Yalta – Karski’s scholarly study examining Poland’s precarious geopolitical position between 1918 and 1948 – was released today in a new anniversary edition by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Oiginally published in 1985 by University Press of America, Karski's second book provides a comprehensive examination of the role played by Germany, Great Britain, France, the United States and Soviet Union in shaping the fate of Poland after the country regained its sovereignty in 1918. The book focuses on the shifting policies of "the Great Powers" toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, and ends with Poland’s brutal subjection to communist rule in the aftermath of World War II. Karski’s research and his in-depth analysis are richly supplemented with archival material and interesting anecdotes. The Great Powers and Poland offers readers a new understanding of Poland's predicament – a fate resting largely in the hands of negligent allies and rapacious neighbors – and its place on the world’s political map of the twentieth century. For the many readers fascinated by Karski's wartime memoir, Story of a Secret State, it offers a complementing, yet accessible and compelling historical context.
The book is available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Powers-Poland-Versailles/dp/1442226641/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2
