The First Partition of Poland
New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #10421
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, sunned, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "Kaplan's study provides us, then, with a new appraisal of the origins and first stages of a major historical event. Making extensive use of the diplomatic sources and also of hitherto untapped archives within Poland, he has traced, with admirable dispassion, the exceedingly intricate interplay of international rivalry and suspicion and of domestic Polish controversy and confusion that led, in ways unforeseen and unanticipated by even the partitioners, to the drastic diminution of a once great state." - Foreword by Henry L Roberts. ; East Central European Studies of Columbia University; Ex-Library; xvii, 215 pages.
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