This work appeared in connection with the centennial of Poland's rebirth as an independent state in 2018. Its focus is Poland-United States diplomatic relations. It is a most welcome addition to what we have in this field, most notably Piotr Wandycz's The United States and Poland (1980) and Wandycz and John S. Micgiel's edited volume, Reflections on Polish Foreign Policy (2007). Contributors to this collection are prominent public officials from Poland and the U.S. who bring both expertise and experience to the subject.
The biographies of the five contributors appear at the end of the book. Robert Kupiecki, Poland's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2012, provides two pieces—an introduction and a review of Poland-U.S. relations after 1989. Ambassador/historian Bogusław Winid, who served as Poland's representative to NATO, analyses the relations between the two states between 1918 and 1945. Professor Jakub Tyszkiewicz of the University of Wrocław takes...