New book on Slovakia

Let me put in a plug for a new book: Slovakia On the Road to Independence, by Paul Hacker. I found it a fascinating history of the pre- and post-Communist history of the country, by a career U.S. diplomat who knows the country very well. He asked me for pictures I had taken of the Bratislava U.S. Embassy, and I am very pleased that one appears on p. 81 of the book.

Here's a link to the publisher's page at Penn State University Press
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03623-6.html


This is the cover image of the book.