Gdansk: Portrait of a City

It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Gras&sgrave;s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where worker&sgrave; strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement led to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Proud Hanseatic port, heart of the Baltic Sea trade, twice a "Free City," present-day liberal, cosmopolitan center: Gdańsk's story between Germany and Poland is rich and fascinatin...