Praise for Between East and West and Anne Applebaum "In her relentless quest for understanding, Applebaum shines light into forgotten worlds of human hope, suffering and dignity." -- The Washington Post "The interleaved surveys of the region's history [are] sweeping and elegantly-written." -- The Independent (UK)   "Applebaum's receptiveness encourages borderlanders to tell her the myriad of ways that political partitioning has subjugated their personal lives, cultural traditions and languages." -- Publishers Weekly   "Achieves both specificity and readability." -- The New York Times   "Ms. Applebaum offers us windows into the lives of the men and sometimes women who constructed the police states of Eastern Europe. She gives us a glimpse of those who resisted. But she also gives us a harrowing portrait of the rest--the majority of Eastern Europe's population, who, having been caught up in the continent's conflicts time and time again, now found themselves pawns in a global one.

" -- The Wall Street Journal   "Applebaum wants to give flesh to a concept." -- New Yorker     "She is a terrific writer, rare among regional experts. Applebaum possesses an overarching vision of what occurred in Eastern Europe." -- Christian Science Monitor   "Her researches have led her radically to reappraise some of the most basic historical assumptions made in the West." -- Evening Standard (UK)   "Applebaum [has the] ability to take a dense and complex subject, replete with communist acronyms and impenetrable jargon, and make it not only informative but enjoyable--and even occasionally witty." -- The Telegraph (UK).