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Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945 Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow
ISBN: HB: 9781912174065, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 photos and maps
This new study by Igor Nebolsin covers, in remarkable detail, a number of forgotten and overlooked armoured engagements on the Eastern Front during the final year of the war, based firmly on Soviet and German archival records. After defeating Germa...
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£59,00
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Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...
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£43,00
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Team 10 East Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism
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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£22,00
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Trans-Atlantyk
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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£12,99
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Tadeusz Rozewicz They Came to See a Poet
ISBN: PB: 9780856464362, Carcanet, August 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. "What I produced is poetry for the horror-stri...
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£14,95
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Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497286, Seagull Books, November 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.2 cm
Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters – a dog, an underdog, and a cat – offer the reader narratives that reflect on...
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£13,00
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Triumph of Provocation
ISBN: HB: 9780300145694, Yale University Press, August 2009
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Jozef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation...
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£43,00
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They Came to See a Poet Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780856462382, Carcanet, November 1991
234 pp., 22.4x14.5 cm
Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. "What I produced is poetry for the horror-stri...
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£15,95
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