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A History of the Polish-Americans; &

Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics

[John Bukowczyk]

 

A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True

[Brigid Pasulka]

 

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of WWII

[Lynne Olsen and Stanley Cloud]

 

WWII Behind Closed Doors:Stalin, the Nazis and the West

[Laurence Rees]

 

Bloodlands: Between Hitler and Stalin

[Timothy Snyder]

 

Footsteps in the Snow

[Roma King]

 

God’s Playground:  A History of Poland; & Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw;

Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland’s Present

[Norman Davies]

 

I Am First a Human Being:  The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska

[Irene Tomaszewski]

 

Maps and Shadows [Contact for info]

Aquila Polonica Publishing

 

Matka Dzieci Holocaustu: Historia Ireny Sendlerowej

Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: History of Irena Sendler

[Anna Mieszkowska]

English edition to be published by Praeger Press, 2010

 

My Two Polish Grandfathers

[Witold Rybczynski]

 

No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in WWII

[Kenneth Koskodan]

 

Push Not the River / Against a Crimson Sky

[James Conroyd Martin]

 

The Black Madonna of Derby

[Joanna Czechowska]

 

The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom

[Stefan Waydenfeld] Aquila Polonica Publishing

 

The Long Walk

[Slavomir Rawicz ]

 

The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt

 War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940

[Rulka Langer]  Aquila Polonica Publishing

 

The Officer’s Daughter

[Zina Rohan]

 

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

[Alex Storozynski]

 

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

[Diane Ackerman]

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting to Be Heard: The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi and Stalinist Oppression, 1939-1955

[Bogusia J. Wojciechowska]

   Poles who experienced Nazi and Stalinist brutality (video link)

 

Żegota: The Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-45
[Irene Tomaszewski & Tecia Werbowski]

New edition to be published by Praeger Press, 2010

 

 

 

 

Recommended Online Magazine

 

CosmoPOLitan Review

 

 

 

 Polish Cultural Institute -- Film List

 

 Polish Film Festival -- Chicago

 

 

Recommended Film VIEWING

 

A Forgotten Odyssey

 

A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuściński

 

A Trip to Nowhere: Personal Experiences of WWII Polish Deportees to Soviet Gulags

 

A Web of War

 

Battle for Warsaw

 

Behind Closed Doors

 

Citizens: An American Film Portrait of Polish Solidarity in '80-'81

 

Exiles

 

Hiding and Seeking

 

In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler

(Feature-length documentary film:  Donate)

 

It all Began In Poland: Reconstructed Documentaries 1938-1946

 

Katyń (Documentary Film)

 

MDM

 

Po-Lin

 

Postcard from Auschwitz

 

Rabbit à la Berlin

 

Rape of Europa

 

Romance in Light: Fryderyk Chopin and the Cinema

 

Siege (Click here to order)

 

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

 

The Officer’s Wife

 

The Strangest Dream

 

The Way Back

 

Żegota

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

My Two Polish Grandfathers [Wanda Urbańska]

 

The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt    [Wanda Urbańska]

[Fontayne Holmes]

 

The Zookeeper’s Wife [New York Times]  |  [The Los Angeles Times]