num_pages: 388
description: The author was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. He witnessed the defiance of the workers and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in Lech Walesa. This book, therefore, acts as an eyewitness account of the occurances cited but also it provides an analysis of the powers ranged against Solidarity and of their pyrrhic victory. The author describes Solidarity's long underground struggle, its triumphant return in 1989 and the ironies of its subsequent disintegration.
language: English
title: The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
titlecomplete: The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
genres: Historical, Politics, European History, Nonfiction, School, Poland, History, Society
ratings_count: 115
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons