The Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier

Following his acclaimed exploration of the vanished East Prussia, Forgotten Land, Max Egremont turns his attention to the Baltic, another part of the world where the ghosts of history still make their presence felt.

About the author

Max Egremont studied history at Oxford University. As well as four novels, he has written biographies of Arthur Balfour, Major-General Sir Edward Spears and Siegfried Sassoon, and Some Desperate Glory: the First World War the Poets Knew. His Forgotten Land: Journeys among the Ghosts of East Prussia (2011) has been described as ‘a work of consummate artistry’ (the Spectator), ‘a story for our time’ (the New Statesman), ‘remarkable, fascinating reading’ (the Sunday Times), ‘beautifully written’ (the Wall Street Journal), and ‘the very best form of travel writing’ (the Mail on Sunday).

Summary

Following his acclaimed exploration of the vanished East Prussia, Forgotten Land, Max Egremont turns his attention to the Baltic, another part of the world where the ghosts of history still make their presence felt.

Foreword

Following his acclaimed exploration of the vanished East Prussia, Forgotten Land, Max Egremont turns his attention to the Baltic, another part of the world where the ghosts of history still make their presence felt.

Additional text

A restlessly enquiring guide . . . With rare narrative, Egremont offers an elegy for a forgotten land

Product details

• Authors: Max Egremont
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781509845446
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-4544-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern, Baltic Sea, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Prussia, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Political oppression and persecution