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Concise History of Poland (2ND 06 Edition) by Jerzy Lukowski Publisher Comments Updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history, from medieval times to the present day.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross Publisher Comments Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world &... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T Gross Publisher Comments On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karoli Lanckoronska Publisher Comments In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Mazurka: A Family's Tale of War, Passion, and Loss by Andrew Tarnowski Publisher Comments The shot Count Hieronim Tarnowski fired on his wedding night in 1914, on the eve of the First World War, was like a tocsin that sounded the doom of his ancient Polish family. When, in August 1939, on the eve of another war, his daughter Sophie saw blood... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Accidental Anarchist by Bryna Kranzler Publisher Comments By the time he was twenty-five years old, Jacob Marateck had been a Jewish officer in the notoriously anti-Semitic Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War, a revolutionary who sought to overthrow the Czar, and sentenced to death three times. After... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Polish Traditions, Customs, and Folklore by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab Publisher Comments Polish Customs, Traditions, & Folklore is organized by months beginning with December and Advent, St. Nicholas Day, the Wigilia (Christmas Eve) nativity plays, caroling and then New Year celebrations. It proceeds from the Shrovetide period to Ash... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East by Frederick Quinn Publisher Comments From the sweeping changes of democratic reform to the bloody conflict of the Chechen Republic, 1993-95 was a tumultuous and critical time for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. During that two-year period, Frederick Quinn traveled the former... (read more) List Price $14.98 Your price: $13.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gods Playground a History of Poland Volume 2 by Norman Davies Publisher Comments The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, "God's Playground" demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart of Europe: The past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies Publisher Comments Traces the history of Poland and examines the social and political life of the country.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk Publisher Comments Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Michelangelo in Ravensbrck: One Woman's War against the Nazis by Karolina LanckoroĊska Publisher Comments A concentration camp survivor describes the mass murder of Poles, the serial horrors inflicted by both Russians and Nazis, and the immense courage of those who resisted during World War II.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gods Playground a History of Poland Volume 1 by Norman Davies Publisher Comments The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, "God's Playground" demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present.... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies Publisher Comments The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crosses of Auschwitz (06 Edition) by Zubrzycki Publisher Comments In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country by Benjamin Weiser Publisher Comments In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart of Europe :a short history of Poland by Norman Davies Publisher Comments In this evocative account, Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the social and political inheritance of modern Poland. Beginning with Solidarity and the immediate concerns of the period since 1945, Davies works backward through time to highlight... (read more) List Price $9.20 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Essays from the Fiftieth Anniversary Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences in America by James Pula Publisher Comments Volume I, Poland and Europe: Historical Dimensions, defines Poland in relationship to the European historical tradition, from the Renaissance through the colapse of Communism. Volume II, The Polish Diaspora, focuses on the effects of emigration on Poles... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Road to Gdansk: Poland & the U. S. S. R. by Daniel Singer About the Author Daniel Singer is the European correspondent for The Nation.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters from Prison and Other Essays by Adam Michnik List Price $37.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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