A Brief History of the Baltic Countries

For the first time in the series, a book does not appear about one country, but immediately about three. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia tie a lot. And the geographical proximity, and the events of the past and, most importantly, in many respects the total present. All this was the reason for the total essay of these three countries.
The author of the book - Professor of the University in Iowa (USA) - Andrejs Plaks, Ethnic Latvian. But his childhood passed in Germany and the United States and his, probably correctly called the American historian. But family roots allowed him to preserve the perception of the past Latvia and its neighbors as his "domestic" history. Moreover, being aside from the rapid events of the last two decades, he managed to preserve the benevolent suspended if you want, an objective, view of certain problems that people who were in the epicenter of political turbulence often faster