Liberty's Double-Edged Sword: The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780822965763
Pub Date: September 2025
Illustrations: 25 b&w
Price: £35.00
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Description:
Liberty's Double-Edged Sword explores one of the most famous episodes in Polish history, McKenna shows how the earliest and largest republic in Europe was brought crashing down by political leaders who cynically took advantage of the very civil liberties they should have defended.