Emilija Jovaisaite-Martisauskiene

Richard Butterwick’s concise history of Lithuania is perhaps the first guide through the thick forests of Lithuanian history, written above all for foreign readers, who are often only vaguely familiar with it. Yet the book reads with equal ease, interest, and clarity even for those well-versed in Lithuanian history.

Until the very last page, the author cleverly weaves a tale, situating the lives of real historical women somewhere between truth and fabrication, history and folklore, bathing their fates in the impenetrable mist of history.