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Lech Walesa : A Way Of Hope : An Autobiography
In response to the French edition of Lech Walesa's vivid autobiography and narrative history of Solidarity, Le Figaro noted: "It's thrilling-page after page. Walesa creates himself before our eyes." Even more extraordinnary is the opportunity readers are offered to witness a great social revolution as it unfolds and in the words of its leader-rather like overhearing Danton or Robespierre during the tumultuos days of the Frech Revolution. Walesa begins by recounting how his family struggled to survive on a small farm ini Popowo, southest of the Baltic port city of Gdansk, after Nazis had sent his fatherto a concentratin camp. Two months after his release in 1945, his father was dead. Two decades later, the twenty-four-year-old rural mechanic eith the golden hands, one of seven children, moved to Gdansk, where he became a shipyard electrician. Conditions were harsh; two years before the historic 1970 Gdansk strike in which fifty co-workers were gunned down by the militia, a score of welders rushing to complete
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