Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire\'s farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Egremont is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature..
He is the author of four novels and four biographies, most recently Siegfried Sassoon: A Life (FSG, 2005) .
About the Author: Max Egremont was born in 1948 and studied modern history at Oxford University.
It is a unique examination of the layers of history, of the changing perceptions and myths of homeland, of virtue and of wickedness, and of how a place can still overwhelm those who left it years before.
Forgotten Land is a story of historical identity and character, told through intimate portraits of people and places.
In Forgotten Land , Max Egremont offers a vivid account of this region and its people through the stories of individuals who were intimately involved in and transformed by its tumultuous history, as well as accounts of his own travels and interviews he conducted along the way.
Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the East and south, and through Poland in the west.
Now it lives only in history and in myth.
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire\'s farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea
