Forgotten Land

No country embodied the turbulence of twentieth-century Europe more dramatically than East Prussia. The scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge', it was carved up between Poland and the USSR after World War II - and passed abruptly into history. Many of its refugees are still alive and with astonishing stories to tell.

Max Egremont's first travels to the old East Prussia took him to a post-communist desert. But at the turn of the twenty-first century he f... >Voir plus