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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: $21.43$14.64Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley 9781399601078
RRP: $29.23$23.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Swimming in the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attitude by Tomasz Jedrowski 9781526604989
RRP: $19.48$13.40LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year 'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry 'Beautiful ... A masterpiece' Attitude Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class... -
The Yorkshire Forager: A Wild Food Survival Journey by Alysia Vasey
RRP: $29.23$19.11Alysia Vasey's earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed with her, even as she learnt that her family's knowledge of edible... -
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz 9781845296445
RRP: $21.43$14.43'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves'Slavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was... -
A Little Girl in Auschwitz: A heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love by Lidia Maksymowicz 9781529094404
RRP: $19.48$13.40The No. 1 international bestseller, with a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis, who made headlines in 2021 when he kissed Lidia's Auschwitz identification tattoo.The unforgettable, moving true story of the little girl who survived Auschwitz's 'Angel of... -
Poland: A history by Adam Zamoyski 9780007556212
RRP: $25.33$16.54Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. ... -
The First Enigma Codebreaker: Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing by Robert Gawlowski
RRP: $39.00$27.87The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of one of the greatest armed conflicts in... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: $21.43$14.64The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: $48.75$34.36'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the... -
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
RRP: $19.48$13.26The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski, a... -
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: $25.33$17.73A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to... -
Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [First edition] by Daniel Renshaw 9781906764036
RRP: $38.51$23.28Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $25.33$17.73Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: $37.03$27.32The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
RRP: $21.43$15.15At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille... -
Polish Fighter Colours 1939-1947. Volume 2: 2018 by Bartlomiej Belcarz 9788365281784
RRP: $78.00$57.31This second volume continues to describe in detail the camouflage and markings of the day fighters used by the Polish Air Force from 1939 to 1947. Aircraft of Polish, French, British, American, Soviet and German origin are shown. The writing team... -
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Adam Zamoyski 9780008521684
RRP: $48.75$32.04Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: $25.33$17.73How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $21.43$15.15A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto by Samuel D. Kassow
RRP: $35.08$25.25In the Autumn of 1940 the Jews of Warsaw were forced into a crowded ghetto, enduring unimaginable conditions until most were killed. Yet, amid this, one man, Emanuel Ringelblum, started an extraordinary clandestine organization dedicated to recording... -
Panzers in the Defence of Festung Posen 1945 by Maciej Karalus
RRP: $33.05$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390168Author Maciej KaralusFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller by Judy Batalion
RRP: $21.43$12.62One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson
RRP: $25.33$17.73WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL... -
The First March of Gentlemen by Rafal Milach
RRP: $58.50$56.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910401170Author Rafal MilachFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint GOST BooksPublisher GOST BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 127mm * 15mm -
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
RRP: $39.00$29.02Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence... -
An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $5.85$4.86'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War PolandPenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II by Kenneth K. Koskodan 9781849084796
RRP: $21.43$16.34An in-depth history of the Polish soldiers who served in World War 2, with previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photographs. There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: $42.90$29.17'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
Warsaw 1920 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had... -
Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab 9780781805155
RRP: $35.08$24.77"A richly detailed and well-informed month-by month accounting of all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries. Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory."-The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter This unique,... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
RRP: $25.33$16.77'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of... -
Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation by Marek Krajewski
RRP: $19.48$13.26It is 1919 in Breslau. The hideously battered bodies of four young sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant Mock arrives at the scene to investigate, he discovers a note addressed to him, asking him to confess his... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $17.53$12.58'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard... -
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe by Marek Kohn
RRP: $39.00$33.11A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle... -
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $38.98$27.85The 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,... -
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795: Light and Flame by Richard Butterwick
RRP: $58.50$57.04A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least... -
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: $66.20$55.40The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup.In the story of modern Poland, no one... -
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
RRP: $37.03$26.54In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following...