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God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies
RRP: $94.56$94.46This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently... -
The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry by Lidia Maksymowicz
RRP: $37.03$36.93The Number One International Bestseller.The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived the evil Dr Josef Mengele's pseudo-medical experiments. With a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis.Lidia Maksymowicz was just three... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944 (Volume 1) by Sr. Nash
RRP: $58.50$45.47During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich's dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany's defeat in May... -
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 by Norman Davies
RRP: $37.03$26.54Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure... -
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia by Max Egremont
RRP: $29.23$21.70East Prussia is no longer on any map, though it was once a thriving land, famously military, deeply forested, artistically fertile, and the birthplace of Immanuel Kant. As the scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge' it came to embody the turbulence of the... -
The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949: Britain'S Polish Forces by Wiesław Rogalski 9781912390892
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390892Author Wieslaw RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: $39.00$27.98A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: $21.43$15.15The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
The Khotyn Campaign of 1621: Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack Armies Versus Might of the Ottoman Empire by Michal Paradowski 9781804513507
RRP: $58.40$47.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513507Author Michal ParadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 9780062303028
$23.65Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police... -
Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $23.38$16.44The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of... -
Special Operations Executive: Polish Section: The Death of the Second Polish Republic by Wielaw Rogalski
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113740Author Wielaw RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Despite Destruction, Misery and Privations…: The Polish Army in Prussia During the War Against Sweden 1626-1629 by Michał Paradowski
RRP: $48.75$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336455Author Michal ParadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Charles Messenger
RRP: $29.23$21.35In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security Prisoner Of War camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. The escapers were led by... -
God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $111.15$110.49This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: $39.00$28.65The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests... -
The Polish Navy 1918-45: From the Polish-Soviet War to World War II by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: $23.38$16.44Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years. Newly independent Poland's naval force was created in 1920, initially with six ex-German torpedo... -
First Polish Armoured Division 1938-47: A History by McGilvray, Evan 9781526724151
RRP: $48.75$34.36The First Polish Armoured Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry... -
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$24.73The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually... -
Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
RRP: $19.48$13.26Breslau was a German city on the border of Czechoslovakia. It is now, since World War II, Wroclaw, in Poland. Marek Krajewski has written a quartet of novels which unfold the history of this exceptional city, standing on the faultline and crossroads of... -
The Last Lancer by Catherine Czerkawska
RRP: $25.33$16.77An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic... -
East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991 by Sabrina P. Ramet 9781032318202
RRP: $70.18$61.80The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote... -
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore 9780300143287
$64.94'In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska.' Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska... -
Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition by Jan Gross
RRP: $81.90$65.21Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on... -
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk
RRP: $33.15$28.51In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $39.00$27.87A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross 9780691234304
RRP: $29.23$22.13A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 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... -
Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939 by David Williamson 9781526782106
$31.88Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study,... -
Viking and Slavic Ornamental Designs by Igor Dominik Gorewicz 9781945430794
RRP: $37.05$22.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430794Author Igor Dominik GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
End of the World in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
RRP: $19.48$13.26Breslau in the 1920s is haunt of marquises and merchants, gamblers and gutter-rats. Eberhard Mock, the hardened Criminal Councillor, fits right in as he sways from the basements of grubby casinos to his beautiful young wife in their palatial mansion. But... -
Sisterhood by V. B. Grey
RRP: $29.23$19.11'A powerful story' Sunday Post'Two gripping heroines' Choice'Grey investigates how secrets from the past continue to warp the present' The Sunday TimesTWO SISTERS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRETIt is 1944 in war-battered London. Freya and Shona are identical... -
Forgotten Holocaust, Third by Richard C. Lukas 9780781813020
RRP: $29.23$23.52Forgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, "Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of one ethnic community in occupied Poland without... -
Viking and Slavic Ornamental Design by Igor Gorewicz 9781945430770
RRP: $37.05$22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430770Author Igor GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
My Brother's Keeper: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust by Antony Polonsky 9780415042321
RRP: $263.25$229.48In recent years, a lively debate has developed in Poland on the question of what responsibility the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil. This debate was sparked off by the showing in Poland of Claude... -
History Of A Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer 9781632061157 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061157Author Filip SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
History Of A Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer
RRP: $29.23$19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061157Author Filip SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine by Patrice M. Dabrowski 9781501759673
RRP: $54.58$42.32In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians,... -
Spirit of Place: The Roadside Shrines of Poland by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
RRP: $35.08$23.99"They are works of art that speak to the creative spirit that once stirred within a heart to carve a statue, to gather stones to build a foundation, or gather words to form a poem or mix colors for a painting; they are messages from the past telling what... -
Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto April-May 1943 by French Maclean 9780764312854
RRP: $107.23$69.44The twenty-eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in World War II. Only the fighting at Leningrad from 1941-1943, Stalingrad in 1942-1943, the Warsaw Rebellion of 1944, and Budapest in 1944-1945... -
Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope by Peter Dale Scott 9781538172445
RRP: $68.25$60.35Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human...