Poland
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Forgotten Holocaust, Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartForgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, “Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of… [more below]
- Author: Lukas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813026
- Language: English
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
$20.99 Add to cartCOSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR – #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER
“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us–as if watching a movi
- Author: Fairweather, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0062561537
- Language: English
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One Star Away
$15.00 Add to cartWhen Soviet soldiers force their way into the Nowicki home at 3:00am, Ziuta has no idea why her family is being arrested, where they are going or when they will return. From the safety of home in Pola
- Author: Salva, Imogene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578928159
- Language: English
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Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites Across North America
$29.95 Add to cartThe innumerable contributions of Polish immigrants and their descendants on communities in North America can be seen on monuments, bridges, churches, cultural centers, and cemeteries across the contin
- Author: Barczyk, Ewa E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0781814359
- Language: English
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Poland: A History
$29.95 Read moreAs Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions … [more below]
- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813018
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections
$25.00 Add to cartThe author describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying on historic sou… [more below]
- Author: Chmara, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1950423808
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Kraków
$25.00 Read moreWhether you want to enjoy a coffee in Krak?w’s iconic market square, explore the cavernous Wieliczka salt mine, or simply indulge in moreish Pierogi, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you exp… [more below]
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0241664837
- Language: English
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Poland – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
Culture Smart! guides provide travelers with vital information about the values and attitudes of the people they will meet, and practical advice
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Allen, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023303
- Language: English
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Shadows on the Hudson
$36.99 Add to cart“A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer’s masterpiece” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531226
- Language: English
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When We Were Twins
$19.95 Add to cartFrom their privileged childhood in Egypt, the paths of once-inseparable twins Taher and Aisha diverge early: When the USSR invades Afghanistan, Taher abandons their shared plans to study medicine in E… [more below]
- Author: Hinc, Danuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1951508319
- Language: English
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier
“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0525541330
- Language: English
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Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning new collection featuring fresh translations of Bruno Schulz’s 15 most captivating short stories, in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition
Includes a new translation of a recently discovere- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Schulz, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277897
- Language: English
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Sophia House
$21.95 Read moreSophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Sch fer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of th
- Author: O’Brien, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1621641171
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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The Possessed
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “a master of
verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike),
Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now
in a new, authoritative En… [more below]- Author: Gombrowicz, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162525
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
$28.99 Add to cartEmploying the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authori
- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338878
- Language: English
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The Midwife of Auschwitz
$18.99 Add to cartInspired by a heartbreaking true story, this poignant novel tells of one woman’s brave fight for love, life, and hope during a time of unimaginable darkness in WWII Germany, perfect for readers of The… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1538767821
- Language: English
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
$20.99 Add to cartHow do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these for
- Author: Ripley, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 145165443X
- Language: English
