Galicia

The story of a forgotten kingdom from which nations were born.

Norman Davies, in his best style, presents the fate of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the nations of modern Central and Eastern Europe took root and where religious denominations coexisted for centuries. This is a story about the myth and legend of Galicia, told not only through the perspective of major events but also through the eyes of ordinary inhabitants of these lands. It was there that Polishness survived the partitions and the idea of ​​a Ukrainian nation was born. It was there that the fates of the Habsburgs and the Potockis intertwined. It was there that Polish, German, Yiddish, and Ruthenian could be heard on the same street.

Davies does not spin an idyllic tale. His Galicia is bittersweet.

Second, expanded edition.