History - Europe - Poland

Stories 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 success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the...

Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2)The fourth edition of this work was published during the author's absence from the city. His publishers, in a preface in his behalf, returned his acknowledgments to the public, and he can...

Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)Punctuation and hyphenation have been normalised. Variable, archaic or unusual spelling has been retained. A list of the few corrections made can found at the end of the book. In the text,...

As 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 of the past. The events of the last twenty years...

"A richly detailed and well-informed month-by-month accountingof all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries.Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory." ―The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter Now in a paperback edition with illustrations, historical blackand white photographs, and color photographs throughout...

Roundabout to Moscow: An Epicurean JourneyIf any reader of this book happens to be carrying about a heavy pack of fine old English prejudices, I beg that he or she will drop it before entering upon the eleven chapters relating to Russia. The best...

"A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account" (The New York Times Book Review, Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA's secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War...

The Discovery of MuscovyThe first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeths reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure. Chanceler went...

An essential new history of Central Europe that "deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past" (Wall Street Journal) Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The...

Amid the upheaval of two world wars, three individuals found themselves at the heart of Poland's struggle for survival. Their extraordinary stories, shaped by war, resistance, and resilience, offer a deeply personal perspective on Poland's complex and often tragic past.The Soldier-A fifteen-year-old boy from...

COSTA 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 movie--the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion,...