The Polish Revolution; Solidarity; Third Edition

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 edition -- the fate of the Solidarity movement in subsequent years. Book jacket.

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of The File, In Europe's Name, History of the Present, and three other volumes of "history of the present": The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity (for which he won the Prix Europeen de l'Essai), and The Magic Lantern, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which has now appeared in fifteen languages. He is Director of the European Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons