Presents the variety and splendor of Poland, including the seacoast, the old cities and their monuments, and the villages and countryside
Like the heroic land that is its subject, Poland teems with vivid events and unforgettable characters in the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries.
Piotr Wandycz presents a comprehensive picture of the changing relationships between the United States and Poland over two hundred years. This work is, as Wandycz writes, both a survey and a synthesis.
Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context Challenges ...
This is the first book-length account of Renaissance humanism in 15th- and 16th-century Poland.
"This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else overlooked.
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories.
This is the story of the Polish forces during the Second World War, the story of millions of young men and women who gave everything for freedom and in the final victory lost all.
Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939
While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.