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

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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

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