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Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...
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£18,00
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Drama and Devotion Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw
ISBN: PB: 9781606061121, Getty Publications, July 2012
112 pp., 25.3x22.8 cm, 58 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
This title offers a fascinating look at the efforts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century. O...
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Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!
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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£69,00
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Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...
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£16,99
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Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones
Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...
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£19,50
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Alicja Kwade Materia Prima
ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German
Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...
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£37,50
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941
ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...
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£45,00
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Last Goodbye Holocaust Paintings & Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781908223876, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, February 2012
64 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm
"The Last Goodbye" is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War II in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. De...
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£12,99
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With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944
ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps
The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...
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