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Captive Mind (81 Edition)
by Czeslaw Milosz  Publisher Comments The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right....
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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
by Karoli Lanckoronska Publisher Comments This brilliantly written memoir--of the author's arrest by the Nazis and imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp--records a neglected side of World War II: the mass murder of Poles, the serial horrors inflicted by both Russians and Nazis, and the...
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation
by Jan Tomasz 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&#...
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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...
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A History of Poland (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Anita J Prazmowska Publisher Comments Incorporating the most up-to-date research, A History of Poland offers a wide-ranging, readable survey of the country's history, from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the Solidarity movement and the present day...
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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...
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The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 18481914
by Kee Stauter Halsted 
Publisher Comments How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter...
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A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid ToSave His Country
by Benjamin Weiser Publisher Comments For almost a decade, Col. Ryszard Kuklinski betrayed the Communist leadership of Poland, cooperating with the CIA in one of the most extraordinary intelligence operations of the Cold War. But even after freedom came to Poland, a riddle remained: was...
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Democracy in Poland
by Marjorie Castle Publisher Comments Ever-changing election rules, a highly fluid party system, a constitution considered illegitimate by more than one major political actor, polarized political elites, and a system of corruption that has grown up together with the young democracy itself --...
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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
by Karoli Lanckoronska Publisher Comments In 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, professor and wealthy landowner, joined the Polish underground, was arrested, sentenced to death, and was held in Ravensbruck concentration camp. There she taught art history to other women who, like her, might be...
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A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Jerzy Lukowski Publisher Comments Poland only sporadically makes the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world, and its history remains comparatively unknown. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795, to be resurrected after the First World War, to...
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Poland Under Communism: A Cold War History
by Anthony Kemp Welch Publisher Comments This is the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony Kemp-Welch integrates the Cold War history of...
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Poland's Protracted Transition: Institutional Change and Economic Growth, 1971-1993
by Kazimierz Poznanski Publisher Comments This book offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish economy since 1971....
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The Traveller's History of Poland (Traveller's History)
by John Radzilowski Publisher Comments Radzilowski vividly describes the beginnings of the country, first fragmented then reborn to overcome the aggression of the Teutonic Knights and its greedy neighbors, concluding with Poland's rising role within the greater European Union....
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Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland (Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe)
by Janelle A Kerlin Publisher Comments The fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe raised the complex question of how social services were to be distributed and administered in countries with legacies of highly centralized states. When Poland underwent a series of reforms to modify and...
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The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy Over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland
by Anthony Polonsky Publisher Comments Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from...
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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....
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The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski Publisher Comments Mr. Zamoyski believes there is a need for a new synthesis of Poland's past because of the heavily nationalist and political coloring of existing works. He strives to place Polish history more squarely in its European context, and he pays special...
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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....
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Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945
by F. B. Czarnomski Publisher Comments "Fighting Warsow is an extraordinary human story. Stefan Korbonski, the leader Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the Second World war, and the beginning of anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His...
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