Poland: A HistoryA substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand Year History of the Poles and their Culture', which has been out of print since 2001. No nation's history has been so distorted as that of Poland. In 1797 Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the country up among themselves, expunging Polands sovereignty from history, casting it as a backwater that needed civilising. But as Adam Zamoyskis