An authoratative history of Poland, from independence at Versailles to the late twentieth century.

Anita Prazmowska is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics, where she has taught since 1992. Her main fields of research interests lie in the Cold War; communism; contemporary history; Eastern Europe; fascism; and Poland. Recent publications include Civil War in Poland (2004); A History of Poland (2004); Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War (2000); Britain and Poland 1939-1943. The Betrayed Ally (1995); Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939 (1987). She has also made contributions in recent years to 'The experience of occupation: Poland' in John Bourne, Peter Liddle, Ian Whitehead (eds.), The Great World War 1914-45, Vol. I. Lightning Strikes Twice (2000), and 'Poland' in Robert Boyce and Joseph A Maiolo, The Origins of the World War Two. The Debate Continues (2003).