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The Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Hardcover)
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The Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Hardcover)
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021 This journey to the edge of
Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding
and revelatory effect. Few countries have suffered more from the
convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in
the eastern Baltic. Small nations such as the Baltic States of
Latvia and Estonia found themselves caught between the giants of
Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or
retreated. Subjected to foreign domination and conquest since the
Northern crusades in the twelfth century, these lands faced
frequent devastation as Germans, Russians and Swedish colonisers
asserted control of the territory, religion, government, culture
and inhabitants. The Glass Wall features an extraordinary cast of
characters - contemporary and historical, foreign and indigenous -
who have lived and fought in the Baltic and made the atmosphere of
what was often thought to be western Europe's furthest redoubt. Too
often it has seemed to be the destiny of this region to be the
front line of other people's wars. By telling the stories of
warriors and victims, of philosophers and Baltic Barons, of poets
and artists, of rebels and emperors, and others who lived through
years of turmoil and violence, Max Egremont reveals a fascinating
part of Europe, on a frontier whose limits may still be in doubt.
'Fascinating . . . a rich, nuanced account of life on "the Baltic
frontier"' - The Times 'Excellent' - Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' -
Literary Review 'Exemplary' - Economist
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