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Aviation

Polonica

Out in Front A Polish Fighter Pilot's Dramatic Air War

Lanowski Witold

ISBN: HB: 9780992620745, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, black&white illus.

Decorated Polish fighter pilot Witold "Lanny" Lanowski tells his remarkable Second World War story beginning with his dramatic escape from Nazi aggression in Poland, fighting with the reformed Polish Air Force in France, and eventually arriving in En...

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Military

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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 3: The Documentary Companion, Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces

Glantz David M.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982116, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2014
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Fuhrer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campa...

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Architecture

Polonica

House as Open Form: The Hansens' Summer Residence in Szumin Dom jako Forma Otwarta. Szumin Hansenow

Kedziorek Aleksandra, Springer Filip, Smaga Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788364177149, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
200 pp., 27.1x19.8 cm, 120 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! This beautifully illustrated volume offers a photographic tour of the iconic house of Polish architect couple: Oskar Hansen, member of Team 10, and his wife, Zofia. Located in Szumin in central Poland and designed in 1968, t...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

We Wept Without Tears Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz

Greif Gideon

ISBN: PB: 9780300211979, Yale University Press, July 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-f...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

Friling Tuvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...

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Architecture

Polonica

Team 10 East Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism

Stanek Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364177033, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 70 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries – such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Rado...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics

Kedziorek Aleksandra, Ronduda Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364177057, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
350 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 100 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...

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Military

Polonica

Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47

Jarzembowski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9781909384439, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2014
148 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 black&white illus.

This wonderful album is a brilliant pictorial history of the 1st Polish Armoured Division composed of about 250 photographs, documents and publications largely collected by WO1 Alexander Leon "Manka" Jarzembowski, a veteran of 2nd Armoured Regiment,...

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Fiction

Polonica

Trans-Atlantyk

Gombrowicz Witold, Borchardt Danuta

ISBN: PB: 9780300175301, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit

Martin Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...

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