The Eagle and the Small Birds: Crisis in the Soviet Empire, from Yalta to Solidarity

192pp, illustrated with black and white photographs. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends. Outer text block edge just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded at edges, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A history of the events in Eastern Europe in the four decades since the Soviet takeover - offering the personal witness of former influential Communists and showing the Polish crisis to have been a part of a chain of events including the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968.