*Goodbye Eastern Europe*

The author is Jacob Mikanowski and the subtitle is An Intimate History of a Divided Land.  Might this be the best overall book on how Eastern Europe ended up so different (but not entirely different) from Western Europe?  I’ll be doing a CWT with him later this fall (hold your suggestions for now, and I’ll hold further commentary as well), but though I would flag this book for you in the meantime.  I hope it gets some good publicity as the release date is approaching.