The Glass Wall Lives on the Baltic Frontier

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781509845453
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 947.9
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 523g
Height: 164mm
Width: 240mm
Spine width: 35mm