Recommended Reading

Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife

Anne Applebaum

• Between East and West : Across the Borderlands of Europe
• GULAG: A History

Mark Brzezinski

• The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland

John Bukowczyk

• And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish Americans
• A History of Polish Americans, reprint ed. with new into.
• Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics

• Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland 1939-1947
• After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War Two

Norman Davies

• Europe: A History
• White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20
• God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Volumes I & II)
• Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland
• Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw

Yisrael Guttman & Michael Brenbaum eds

• The Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Gustav Herling ( aka Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski)

• A World Apart: A Journal of a Gulag Survivor

Eva Hoffman

• Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
• Shtetl: the life and death of a small town and the world of Polish Jews
• After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins
• Exit Into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe

Richard Lukas

• Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War against Jewish and Polish Children 1939-1945
• The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1944
• Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation

Margaret MacMillan

• Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Andrew Nagorski

• The Birth of freedom: Shaping Lives and Society in the New Eastern Europe.

Lynn Olson & Stanley Cloud

• A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron, Forgotten Heroes of World WarII

Timothy Snyder

• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999. (This book won the best book award for Polish history t the international convocation of historians in Krakow.)
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

Irene Tomaszewski

• Inside a Gestapo Prison 1942-1944: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska (scheduled for May 2006, Wayne State University Press)
• Zegota: The Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-1944 (co-authored with Tecia Werbowski)

Adam Zamoyski

• The Polish Way: A Thousand Year History of the Poles and their Culture