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Military Government in Exile The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, a study of discontent
ISBN: PB: 9781906033583, ISBN: HB: 9781908916976, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2010
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 1 map
This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Bef...
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£25,00
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£59,00
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Black Devils' March - A Doomed Odyssey The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-45
ISBN: PB: 9781906033538, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
160 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 94 photos, 9 maps
The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish G...
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£25,00
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Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship of Poets
ISBN: HB: 9780300149371, Yale University Press, November 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this...
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£48,00
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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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Grotowski's Empty Room
ISBN: HB: 9781906497231, Seagull Books, November 2009
224 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 halftones
Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small theaters and studio...
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£22,00
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London Observed A Polish Philosopher at Large, 1822-24
ISBN: PB: 9781904955641, Signal Books, September 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The philosopher and writer Krystin Lach-Szyrma came to Britain in 1820 as tutor to two Polish princes, as their Grand Tour took them to Enlightenment Scotland, where they spent two years studying at Edinburgh University. After...
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£12,99
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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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Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
ISBN: PB: 9780300158205, Yale University Press, July 2009
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries.
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£15,00
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Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
ISBN: PB: 9780300143287, Yale University Press, March 2009
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska". Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemiansk...
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£29,00
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Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300121216, Yale University Press, April 2008
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 6 maps
The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace", ended the war of 1919-1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet accou...
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