ENTomas Balkelis’s latest book chronologically extends his investigation of the formation of modern Lithuania. Whereas his earlier book, The Making of Modern Lithuania (2011), focuses predominantly on the late 19th and prewar 20th centuries, highlighting the emergence of the Lithuanian nationalist movement, this newest monograph details the building of the Lithuanian nation and state during the Great War and the subsequent “freedom fights” (laisvės kovų metas) of the immediate postwar period. [p. 992].