99 Books about Poland

History - Memoirs - Polish Armed Forces - Katyn

Books about Poland on Derek Crowe's bookshelf

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The 99 books about Poland featured here focus on Polish history, the deportation experience of the Poles to Siberia in WW2, the Katyn Massacre, the Polish Armed Forces, Polish memoirs together with some fiction and travel literature.

Deportations

  • The Whistler
    Marilyn Gwizdak Greenwood
    2018 United Kingdom: Independently Published ISBN 9781976914881   Amazon   BookFinder
  • The Ice Road - An Epic Journey From Stalinist Labour Camps To Freedom
    Stefan Waydenfeld
    2010 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica ISBN 9781607720027   Amazon   BookFinder
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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
    2009 Riverview Fla: JimSam ISBN 9780982058756   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
    Wesley Adamczyk
    2006 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780226004440   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • Polish Deportees in the Soviet Union - Origins of Post-War Settlement in Great Britain
    Michael Hope
    2000 London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre ISBN 9780948202766   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • Red Snow - A Young Pole's Epic Search for his Family in Stalinist Russia
    Telesfor Sobierajski
    1996 Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Books ISBN 9780850525007   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • The Fate of Poles in the USSR 1939-1989
    Tomasz Piesakowski
    1990 London: Gryf Publications ISBN 9780901342249   Amazon   BookFinder

Diplomacy

Espionage

  • A Secret Life - The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission and The Price He Paid To Save His Country
    Benjamin Weiser
    2005 New York, NY: PublicAffairs ISBN 9781586483050   Amazon   BookFinder
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Fiction

  • While Still We Live
    Helen MacInnes
    2013 London: Titan ISBN 9781781161555   Amazon   BookFinder
  • The Polish Officer
    Alan Furst
    2008 UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson ISBN 9780753825563   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Night of Flames
    Douglas W. Jacobson
    2006 Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press ISBN 9781590131367   Amazon   BookFinder

History

  • First to fight : the Polish War 1939
    Roger Moorhouse
    2019 London: The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage (The book was published in the USA in 2020 under the dfifferent title Poland 1939 : the outbreak of World War II. ISBN 9780465095384) ISBN 9781847924605   Amazon   BookFinder
  • The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946 to 1949 : Britain's Polish forces
    Wiesław Rogalski
    2019 Warwick, UK: Helion & Company Ltd ISBN 9781912390892   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Remembering Occupied Warsaw : Polish Narratives of World War II
    Erica L. Tucker
    2011 DeKalb, Illinois, USA: Northern Illinois University Press ISBN 9780875806556   Amazon   BookFinder
  • The Lion and the Eagle - Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland
    Diana M Henderson (Editor)
    2001 Dunfermline, Scotland: Cualann Press ISBN 9780953503643   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • The Struggles for Poland
    Neal Ascherson
    1987 London: Michael Joseph ISBN 9780718128128   Amazon   BookFinder

Joseph Czapski

  • Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art And Life Of Józef Czapski
    Eric Karpeles
    2018 New York, NY: New York Review of Books ISBN 9781681372846   Amazon   BookFinder

Katyn

  • Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
    Jane Rogoyska
    2021 London: Oneworld Publications ISBN 9781786078926   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Katyn - A Crime Without Punishment
    Edited by Anna Cienciala (USA), Natalia Lebedeva (Russian Federation) and Wojciech Materski (Poland)
    2008 New Haven, CT: Yale University Press ISBN 9780300108514   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • Children of the Katyn Massacre - Accounts of life after the 1940 Soviet Murder of Polish POWs
    Teresa Kaczorowska
    2006 Jefferson N.C: McFarland ISBN 9780786427567   Amazon   BookFinder
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Memoirs

  • The Price of Victory: Memoir of the Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division
    General Stanislaw Maczek
    2024 Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military ISBN 9781036124236   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Eye on Solidarity : Reporting a turning point in Poland - and finding my roots
    Sonya Zalubowski
    2023 New York NY: Associated Press ISBN 9780917360008   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict, Deportation and Exile
    Irena Protassewicz
    2019 London: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 9781350079922   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Faraway Soldier’s Trail: Jan Domański World War II Memoirs
    Jan Domański
    2018 Independently Published ISBN 9781791932824   Amazon   BookFinder
  • A Homeland Denied : In the footsteps of a Polish POW
    Irena Kossakowski
    2016 Caithness, Scotland: Whittles Publishing ISBN 9781849952644   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Wira of Warsaw : Memoirs of a girl soldier
    George Szlachetko
    2015 Emedal Publishing ISBN 9780993340604   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
    Andrew Borowiec
    2014 London: Viking ISBN 9780670922420   Amazon   BookFinder
  • Prisoner of the Gestapo: A Memoir of Survival and Captivity in Wartime Poland
    Tom Firth
    2010 Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military ISBN ‎9781848842069   Amazon   BookFinder

Photography

  • Portrait of Poland
    Photographs by Bruno Barbey, Anthology complied by Jan Krok-Paszkowski, Preface by Czeslaw Milosz
    1982 London: Thames and Hudson ISBN 9780500540831   Amazon   BookFinder
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Polish Armed Forces

  • Freely I Served - 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
    Stanislaw Sosabowski
    2013 Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Military ISBN 9781783462612   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • 303 Squadron - The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron
    Arkady Fielder
    2010 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica Publishing ISBN 9781607720041   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • First to Fight - Poland's Contribution to the Allied Victory in WWII
    Edited by Dr Marek Stella-Sawicki, Jarek Garlinksi and Stefan Mucha
    2009 UK: Polish Ex-Combatants' Association of Great Britain ISBN 9780955782442   Amazon   BookFinder
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  • For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II
    Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
    2004 London: Arrow Books ISBN 9780099428121   Amazon   BookFinder
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Polish Jews

  • Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
    Glenn Kurtz
    2014 New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374276775   Amazon   BookFinder

Polish Underground

  • Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
    Clare Mulley
    2024 London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 9781399601061   Amazon   BookFinder

Polish War Graves

Travel Literature