The Gdansk Companion

Amber-lined streets, a medieval crane on the waterfront, and the shipyard that helped end the Cold War --- Poland's great Baltic port, with room to make it yours. The Gdansk Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: The Shipyard That Changed Europe. A strike inside a Gdansk shipyard in 1980 set off a chain of events that reshaped the map of Europe within a decade.