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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785786266 | ISBN 10: 1785786261
WARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM. Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come bac ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073402 | ISBN 10: 1786073404
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most sig ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474601917 | ISBN 10: 147460191x
A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family history. Â When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the weste ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781852101 | ISBN 10: 1781852103
1930s Warsaw was a thoroughly cosmopolitan, even swinging city. Larger than Chicago, it was host to a rich Jewish cultural life. It seemed inconceivable that all this was about to be swept away, but then came the dark events of September 1939. As the ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408834527 | ISBN 10: 1408834529
Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444758399 | ISBN 10: 144475839x
Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds. Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth bi ... more
View book details£15.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781583672969 | ISBN 10: 1583672966
In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to “really-existing socialism” that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themse ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099515999 | ISBN 10: 0099515997
An expansive, insightful and moving history of the Polish experience during World War Two, and its lasting legacy. Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly’s great grandmother and her tw ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851685851 | ISBN 10: 1851685855
On her fifteenth birthday, as the German army tightens its grip on Warsaw, Mary Berg begins writing her diary. She does not yet know that by the time she has filled twelve small notebooks she will have endured four years of Nazi terror and recorded i ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847081049 | ISBN 10: 1847081045
Michael Moran gives an insider's view of what was once the largest country in Europe; one what evolved under a succession of brutal invasions, which suffered through the Holocaust and was plunged into communism. This entertaining memoirand ... more
View book details£13.00 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904859055 | ISBN 10: 1904859054
The story of the Warsaw ghetto is one of the most heartbreaking and tragic in all of recorded history. Bernard Goldstein, who was already a semi-legendary figure as a socialist and leader of the Jews in Poland, was a central figure in this story. He ... more
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