The Polish Revolution: Solidarity

A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and — for this [...]
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A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and — for this updated version — the fate of the Solidarity movement in subsequent years.Author Biography: Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and of the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of acclaimed works of contemporary history, including The Uses of Adversity, The File: A Personal History, We the People, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which has been translated into fifteen languages, and most recently, History of the Present.