Eastern Europe and the origins of the second world war

In this book Anita Prazmowska examines, from an Eastern European perspective, Eastern Europe's apparent political and military failures in the face of Nazi aggression. Until now, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and the Baltic States have generally been seen as powerless victims. Prazmowska suggests an alternative view, namely seeing them as states which had to grapple with complex economic, political and military dilemmas