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2002 - Poland and its neighbours after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Polish war graves rest in the shade of the Lituanian forest.

An early invasion from the 'east' by the Mongols in the 13th century.

1945 - Poland after WWII: grey land has been taken by the Soviets, Pink land has been taken by Poland from Germany.

Poland's topography, with mountains to the south and the Baltic to the north.

Destroyed Warsaw, a battlefield of WWII, taken January 1945.

Polish army in the trenches during WWI.

1939 - Poland, annexed by the USSR and the Nazis (dark brown) after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

1975 - Poland and the Soviet Union.

Strips of fields from the air demonstrate a distinctive method of farming.

Huge silos to store the collected grain in Rural Poland.

Biolowieza National Park and surrounding strip fields in Poland (left) and Belarus (right).

Women burning fallow fields in Poland, part of regeneration and preparing the land for the next crop.

Abandoned glass houses; one of the many inefficient State Farms after collectivisation.

Green strip fields roll like stripes over the Polish hills.

The largest field systems in Poland, many times bigger than the strip farms, show contrasting methods of working with the land.

One of the many inefficient State Farms (PGRs) left after collectivisation.

From the air, the agricultural landscape appears to be woven in strips of fields.

Inside a Polish forest - a fundamental part of the Polish countryside.

Polish farmer plows using horse power.

Tilling the fields in Poland using traditional horse power.

A rustic farm in rural Poland, typical of many farms in the traditional style across the country.

EU enlargement in 2004, taking in Poland and the other countries coloured blue.

A typical farm house in Czermna, Lower Silesia.

A local farmer, in traditional dress, selling her home-made goods and produce.

Cropping apple trees at experimental farm in Przybroda.

A traditional small scale winemaker house in a rural heritage park.