The I Index

The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier

Bottom of the pile

12

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

6/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Max Egremont

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Date:

February 8, 2022

The eastern Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia were for centuries subject to conquest and domination, and their histories are little understood in the larger world. Here Egremont tells the stories of the figures who inhabited this region: warriors and victims, philosophers and Baltic barons, poets and artists, rebels and emperors—and more

What The Reviewers Say

Ian Thomson,
Financial Times (UK)
... fascinating.
Tom Ball,
The Times (UK)
... [a] fascinating account.

Kirkus
The rich and tragic history of an obscure part of the world.