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Biography & Memoires

First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade

Lorenz Ulrike

ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz

Ostalowska Lidia

ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...

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Military

Polonica

Narvik and the Allies The Polish Brigade at Narvik 1940

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512288, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

This work is about the co-operation between the Allies in Norway between April and June 1940 by initially considering the military-politics of the period August 1939 until the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. Much of the work examines the rol...

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Military

Polonica

Divided Loyalty Britain's Polish Ally During World War II

Rogalski Wieslaw

ISBN: PB: 9781911096641, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus., 3 maps

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was a quasi-military State undergoing rapid political and social change. Nevertheless, Britain signed an agreement with the country as part of its decision to adopt a policy of encircling Germany: a res...

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Fiction

Polonica

Mountains of Parnassus

Milosz Czeslaw

ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

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Linguistics

Polonica

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions

Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof

ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory

Michlic Joanna Beata

ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....

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