Patrick Joyce

In 1968, Josie arrives in Prague as a rookie reporter for the Toronto Post. She grew up in thrall of her grandmother's stories about the old country, and now she's on the brink of a promising career in journalism. It's a dream come true. But her dream is about to become a nightmare.A shocking invasion thunders into the city. Josie is left with a cryptic message, which she must decipher before the city falls.Alone against powerful forces, she finds...

"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life--the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago--is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...