The other, from the centre, is that, in a dangerous world, Poland needs Europe to magnify its strengths, just as Europe needs ...

A map of planned high-speed rail routes in Poland. The routes are part of a plan to connect Warsaw with the Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, one of the largest construction projects in Europe.

Poland is a country in central Europe (Picture: Getty) Poland is a country in central Europe covering an area of 312,696 km 2. It is bordered by the Baltic Sea and Russia to the north ...

The declarations had not yet come, but on Aug. 28, 1939, Europe already knew war was on ... as TIME pointed out to its readers with the map below, which ran in the Sept. 4, 1939 issue.