As far as you can see the church domes, that is Ruthenian/Ukrainian land - so they used to say. Perhaps that is why, when indigenous Ukrainians were cleansed from the Kholm, Southern Podlachia, Sian, Boiko, and Lemko regions in 1947, their churches - Orthodox as well as Greek Catholic - were consigned either to destruction or conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. Tumble-down cemeteries and non-Polish-sounding names were all that remained. FROM VOLODYMYR'S PRINCIPALITY TO THE CURZON LINE presents an extraordinary journey through the centuries, on location in the westemmost confines of ethnographic Ukrainian territory, which became a part of Poland after the Second World War. With literary skill, objectivity, and an unmistakable sense of purpose the author, Jurij Hawryluk, has compiled textual and photographic evidence that bears witness to Zakerzonnia, a world 'beyond the Curzon Line' - an integral story of Ukrainians that very nearly could have vanished without ever being told. This important book will be of interest to any reader who wishes to learn more about the common history of Ukrainians and Poles sińce the 10th century AD. (Yevhen Misylo, Ukrainian Archives, Warsaw)