Map Men is a story of a shared passion for maps in matters of life and death, friendship and war, across borders and by the fragile relationships we build with one other. As a collective biography of five men and their tumultuous relationships out of Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States prior to World War I, the book reexamines the multigenerational sagas behind East Central Europe’s transnational history from the 1850s to the present —above all, the complex individuals who s