Covers "the lands between the linguistic frontier of German- and Italian-speaking peoples on the west and the political boundaries of the former Soviet Union on the east ... roughly the territory between 10nd 35ongitude ... from about 400 C.E. (common era) to the present"--Introduction.
"Treated in depth are the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Yugoslav peoples, Albanians, Bulgarians, and Greeks"--Foreword.
"Published in Canada by University of Toronto Press"--P. iv.