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Photography

Europe

Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade Materia Prima

ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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Poetry

Jewish Studies

Last Goodbye Holocaust Paintings & Poems

Hofmann Edith

ISBN: PB: 9781908223876, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, February 2012
64 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

"The Last Goodbye" is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War II in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. De...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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Poetry

Polonica

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Selected Poems

Norwid Cyprian

ISBN: PB: 9780856464379, Carcanet, August 2011
104 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Cyprian Norwid, born in 1821 near Warsaw, is one of the most innovative and idiosyncratic figures in Polish literature. His unique poetry is now recognized as among Poland's finest. Adam Czerniawski's selection from all phases of the poet's work beau...

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Poetry

Polonica

Tadeusz Rozewicz They Came to See a Poet

Rozewicz Tadeusz

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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Europe

Jewish Studies

Death of the Shtetl

Bauer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...

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Military

Jewish Studies

Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland

Mandelkern Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...

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