Lieven, Anatol. The
Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1994.
A 20th-century history of the three
Baltic States, written by a journalist who lived in the Baltic area for
several years.
Mayo, Wendell. In Lithuanian
Wood. Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 1998.
A book of linked short stories about
an American who visits Lithuania after independence and learns about Lithuanian
life, myths and culture from the people he meets.
McLachlan, Gordon. Lithuania:
The Bradt Travel Guide. Chalfont St. Peter, England: Bradt Publications,
1999.
A detailed guide to Lithuania's history,
culture and tourist areas, written for travellers to Lithuania.
Milosz, Czeslaw. The Issa Valley.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.
Milosz is a Polish writer who was
born in Lithuania in 1911 and won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Issa Valley, originally written in Polish, is a novel set in rural
Lithuania. Other books by Milosz, including his autobiography, Native Realm,
and a study of the effects of totalitarianism on intellectual life, The
Captive Mind, deal with Lithuanian issues.
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