Bitter Glory:Poland and its Fate, 1918-1939

This is the story of the twenty-one years of freedom of Poland between the two World Wars. -the history of modern Poland after centuries of partition and bloodshed, the state that Hitler was determined to crush in a campaign of diplomatic failures and Blitzkrieg military success that triggered World War II. The major characters are the legendary Paderewski , the musician who became Polands mercurial president, pilsudski, the architect of modern Poland, military hero and father figure...from the dust jacket