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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 4: Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9781909982833, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
272 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 120 colour maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...
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£59,00
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Armoured Hussars Volume 2: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, Normandy, August 1944
ISBN: PB: 9781910777237, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
184 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 photos, 8 colour profiles
"Armoured Hussars 2" provides a highly-illustrated account of the 1st Polish Armoured Division's baptism of fire in Normandy in August 1944, from Operations Totalise and Tractable to the victory at Falaise, culminating at the climactic battle on Mont...
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£25,00
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Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...
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£26,50
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De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans
ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish
United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...
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£32,50
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Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300205992, Yale University Press, September 2015
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...
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£19,99
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Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...
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£43,00
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Uncanny Era Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik
ISBN: HB: 9780300204032, Yale University Press, July 2015
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who "...
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£46,00
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Liberation of the Camps The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath
ISBN: HB: 9780300204575, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet...
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£20,00
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"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...
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£30,00
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House of Shadows
ISBN: HB: 9780857420282, Seagull Books, December 2014
484 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature throug...
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