Books about Poland

The following 46 books about Poland are featured on this website.

Deportations to Siberia and Kazakhstan

Dark Side of the Moon
Zoe Zajdlerowa
ISBN 0710813732
Published in 1989 by Harvester Wheatsheaf. First published anonymously in 1946.
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Crater's Edge: A Family's Epic Journey Through Wartime Russia
Micha Giedroyc
ISBN 1903071240
Published in 2010 by Bene Factum Publishing Ltd
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The Silver Madonna
Eugenia Wasilewska
ISBN 0049200291
Published in 1970 by George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
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Janek - A Story in Survival
Alick Dowling
ISBN 0948955457
Published by Ringpress Books in 1989
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Paying Guest in Siberia
Maria Hadow
First published in 1959 by the Harvill Press Ltd
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No Place to Call Home - The Memories of a Polish Survivor of the Soviet Gulag
Stanley J Kowalski and Alexandra Kowalski Everist
ISBN 978-0-9820587-5-6
Published in 2009 by JimSam Inc, USA.
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The Unsettled Account
Eugenia Huntingdon
ISBN 0 7278 2085 0
Published in the UK in 1986 and in the USA in 1988 by Severn House Publishers.
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When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
Wesley Adamczyk
ISBN 0226004430
Published 2004 by Chicago University Press
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Shallow Graves in Siberia
Michael Krupa
ISBN 1 84341 012 5
First published in 1995 by Minerva Press. Republished in UK in 2004 by Birlinn.
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The Ice Road - An Epic Journey From Stalinist Labour Camps To Freedom
Stefan Waydenfeld
ISBN 1840181664
Published in 1999 by Mainstream Publishing. Republished in May 2010 by Aquila Polonica (ISBN 1607720027).
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Diplomacy

In Allied London
Edward Raczynski
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1962.
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Defeat in Victory
Jan Ciechanowski
Published in 1947 by Doubleday
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Espionage

A Secret Life - The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission and The Price He Paid To Save His Country
Benjamin Weiser
ISBN 1586483056
Published in 2004 by PublicAffairs
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Fiction

Night of Flames
Douglas W. Jacobson
ISBN 1590131363
Published in 2006 by McBooks Press
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The Spies of Warsaw
Alan Furst
ISBN 978-1400066025
Published in 2008 by Random House
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Death in Danzig
Stefan Chwin
ISBN 0436205653
Published in 2004
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The Polish Officer
Alan Furst
ISBN 0006511295
Published in 1995 by Harper Collins
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History

The Lion and the Eagle - Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland
Diana M Henderson (Editor)
ISBN 095350364X
Published in 2002 by Cualann Press
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The Poles in Britain 1940-2000 - From Betrayal to Assimilation
Peter D Stachura
ISBN 0 85974 013 7
Frank Cass Publishers (London) in 2004
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Poland in the Twentieth Century
Peter D Stachura
ISBN 033375266X
Published in 1999 by MacMillan Press
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Warsaw 1920 - Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe
Adam Zamoyski
ISBN 0007225520
Published in 2008 by HarperPress
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To Kill A Priest - The Murder of Father Popieluszko and the Fall of Communism
Kevin Ruane
ISBN 1903933544
Published in 2004 by Gibson Square Books
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Katyn

Death in the Forest - The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre
J. K. Zawodny
ISBN 0870525638
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, USA
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Katyn Massacre
Louis Fitzgibbon
ISBN 0552104558
Published 1977 by Corgi Books, London
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Katyn - A Crime Without Punishment
Edited by Anna Cienciala (USA), Natalia Lebedeva (Russian Federation) and Wojciech Materski (Poland)
ISBN 978-0300108514
Published 2007 by Yale University Press, USA
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Children of the Katyn Massacre - Accounts of life after the 1940 Soviet Murder of Polish POWs
Teresa Kaczorowska
ISBN 978-0-7864-2756-7
Published 2006 by McFarland and company, North Carolina, USA
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In the Shadow of Katyn - Stalin's Terror
Stanislaw Swianiewicz
ISBN 189425516X
Published in 2002 by Borealis Publishing. The book was originally published in Polish in 1976, translated and published in Russian in 1989, and translated by his son Witold Swianiewicz and published in English in 2002.
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Memoirs

Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland
Thomas Swick
ISBN 0395585635
Published in 1991 by Ticknor & Fields, USA.
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One Woman's War Against the Nazis
Karolina Lanckoronska
ISBN 1844134172
Published in the UK by Pimlico in 2005. Published in the USA in 2008 by Da Capo Press as Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis.
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The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland
Radek Sikorski
ISBN 0753804646
First published in UK in 1997. Pubished in the USA as Full Circle: A Homecoming to Free Poland.
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The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands
Philip Marsden
ISBN 0007204523
First published in 1995 ISBN 0002556308. Republished in a new edition in 2005 ISBN 0007204523.
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A Warsaw Diary 1978-81
Kazimierz Brandys
ISBN 0701129034
Published by Chatto and Windus in 1984.
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Photography

Portrait of Poland
Photographs by Bruno Barbey, Anthology complied by Jan Krok-Paszkowski, Preface by Czeslaw Milosz
ISBN 0500540837
Published by Thames and Hudson Ltd in 1982. Also published in French and German.
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Polish Armed Forces

Orzel's Patrol - The Story of the Polish Submarine
Eryk Sopocko
Published in 1942 by Methuen & Co Ltd, London
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The Last of the War-Horses
General Klemens S Rudnicki
ISBN 0 85974 013 7
Bachman and Turner, London in 1974
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For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
ISBN 9780099428121
Published by Arrow Books in the UK in 2004. This book was first published in the USA under the title A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II.
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An Army in Exile
Lt-General Wladyslaw Anders
ISBN 0-89839-043-5
Published originally in 1949. First reprinted by Battery Press in 1981. Reprinted in 2004.
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Polish Jews

In the Garden of Memory - A Family Memoir
Joanna Olczal-Ronikier
ISBN 0297645498
Published in 2004 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Konin - A Quest
Theo Richmond
ISBN 009940981X
Published in 1995 by HarperPress
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Polish Underground

Fighting Warsaw - Story of the Polish Underground State 1939-45
Stefan Korbonski
ISBN 0781810353
Published by Hippocrene Books in 2004. First published in 1956.
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Story of a Secret State
Jan Karski
ISBN 1931541396
Published in the UK in 2001 by Simon Publications. Originally published in 1944.
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Courier from Warsaw
Jan Nowak
ISBN 0 00 262121 5
First published in Polish as Kurier z Warszawy by Odnova, London in 1978. First english language was published in 1982 by Wayne State University Press, Michigan, USA.
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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
Norman Davies
ISBN 0330488635
Published in 2003
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When the Summer Ended
Cecylia Wolkowinska and Joanna Bogle
ISBN 0852442165
Published in 1992 by HarperPress
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Polish War Graves

Polish War Graves in Scotland - A Testament to the Past
Robert Ostrycharz
ISBN 1 872286 48 8
Published in 1999


Travel Literature

Between East and West - Across the Borderlands of Europe
Anne Applebaum
ISBN 0333641698
Published in 1995 by PaperMac
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