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Contemporary Art

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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949

Pietrasik Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...

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Europe

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Security Empire The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe

Pucci Molly

ISBN: HB: 9780300242577, Yale University Press, August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...

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America

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American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...

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Military

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Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Polonica

Europe

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...

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