Books on Polish History

Collection prepared by

Krzysztof Jeżewski and Valerie Warunek

Books on Polish history

• Davies, Norman - God’s Playground (1 & 2)

• Davies, Norman - Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

• Davies, Norman - Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe. (Chapter 5: Litva - A Grand Duchy with Kings (1253-1795). Chapter 9: Galicia - Kingdom of the Naked and Starving 1773-1918)

• Faber, Don - The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry

• Gutkowski, Jerzy. 1997. The Polish Sejm. Warsaw: Sejm Pub. Office

• Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Wearing the Letter P

• Kochanski, Halik - The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

• Kowalski, Stanley J. - No Place to Call Home

• Kurek, Ewa - Your Life Is Worth Mine

• Lehmann, Rosa - Symbiosis and Ambivalence

• Lukas, Richard C. - Forgotten Holocaust

• Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki. 2007. A Concise History of Poland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Miłosz, Rev. Bogdan - Immigration Separation Healing

• Olson, Stanley and Cloud, Lynne - For Your Freedom and Ours

• Orr, Aileen - Wojtek The Bear - Polish War Hero

• Perry, Michael W. - Dachau Liberated

• Porter, Jane. 1895. Thaddeus of Warsaw. New York: New York Pub. Co.

• Reilly, Diana Howansky - Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland’s Ukrainians after World War II

• Reymont, Władysław Stanisław. 1942. The Peasants. New York: Knopf.

• Saidel, Rochelle G. - Mielec, Poland: the Shtetl That Became A Nazi Concentration Camp

• Słomka, Jan. 1941. From Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842-1927. London: Minerva Pub. Co.

• Snyder, Timothy - The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999

• Stauter-Halsted, Keely - The Nation in the Village

• Storozynski, Alex - The Peasant Prince: and the Age of Revolution

• Szabados, Stephen. 2014 Memories of Dziadka: Rural Life in the Kingdom of Poland 1880-1912 and Immigration to America.

• Thomas, William I. and Znaniecki, Florian - The Polish Peasant in Europe and America

• Varvounis, Miltiades - Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe

• Varvounis, Miltiades - Made in Poland: The Women and Men Who Changed the World

• Wyman, Mark - Round Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe 1880-1930

• Witold Kula, Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, Marcin Kula, Josephine Wtulich. Writing home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States 1890-1891

• Zamoyski, Adam - The Polish Way

• Zamoyski, Adam - Poland: A History

• digital:

  • https://archive.org/details/historyofpolandf00fletuoft - edition 1831

  • Historical Dictionary of Poland 966-1945

  • “A Guide to the History of Poland” (120 page pdf in various languages) http://pamiec.pl/pa/biblioteka-cyfrowa/publikacje/16251,Przewodnik-po-historii-Polski-9662016.html

Culture

• Czerwiński, Tomasz. 2009. Wyposażenie domu wiejskiego w Polsce. Warszawa: Sport i Turystyka MUZA SA.

• Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore

• Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Herbs, Flowers & Folk Medicine

• Hodorowicz-Knab, Sophie - Polish Wedding Customs and Traditions

• Wloszczewski, Stefan, PH.D - History of Polish American Culture

ELLIS ISLAND

• Conway, Lorie - Forgotten Ellis Island

• Brownstone, Franck and Brownstone - Island of Hope, Island of Tears

• POLISH-AMERICAN HISTORY and MEMOIRS

• Baker, T. Lindsay - The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas

• Borden, Timothy - American Originals: Northwest Ohio’s Polish Community

• Jablonski, Fred Francis - The Dynamics of an East Buffalo Ethnic Neighborhood

• Kraft, Helen - The Chene Street Story

• Sadek, Karolina - Karolina Remembers

• Kruszka, Wacław - A History of the Poles in America to 1908 Part IV. Poles in the Central and Western States

• Milostan, Harry - Parisville Poles

• Renkiewicz, Frank - The Poles in America 1608-1972

• Wylie, Jeanie - Poletown: Community Betrayed

LIST copied from sister group - Polish Culture Food and Traditions

Online resources

• History of Galicia:

• Polish, Hungarian, Austrian, Ukrainian

• Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century

• Where is Poland: The story of Poland under partition, seen through a foreigner's eyes