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| Recommended Reading: Polish Military History |
Reading List (compiled by John Radzilowski)
 Pre World War II |
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Brzezinski, Richard, and Angus McBridge. Polish Armies, 1569-1696 (1). London: Osprey, 1987.
----. Polish Armies, 1569-1696 (2). London: Osprey, 1987.
Cichowski, Jerzy, and Andrzej Szulczynski. Husaria. Warsaw: WMON, 1977.
Davies, Norman. White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20. London: Orbis Books, 1983.
Karolevitz, Robert F., and Ross S. Fenn. Flight of Eagles: The Story of the Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920. Sioux Falls, S.D.: Brevet Press, 1974.
Kujawski, Marian. Z Bojow Polskich w Wojnach Napoleonskich [Of Polish Battles in the Napoleonic Wars]. London: Polish Cultural Foundation, 1967.
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Arct, Bohdan. Prisoner of War: My Secret Journal. Exeter: Webb and Bower, 1988.
Cholewczynski, George F. Poles Apart: The Polish Airborne at the Battle of Arnhem. New York: Sarpedon, 1993
Filipow, Krzysztof, and Zbigniew Wawer. Passerby, Tell Poland . . . Narvik, Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Falaise. Warsaw: Arkady, 1991. See description.
Garlinski, Jozef. Intercept: Secrets of the Enigma War. London: J. M. Dent and Sons,
----. Poland in the Second World War. London: Macmillian, 1985.
----. The Swiss Corridor: Espionage Networks in Switzerland during World War II. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1981.
Kulski, Julian Eugenuisz. Dying We Live: The Personal Chronicle of a Young Freedom Fighter in Warsaw (1939-1945). New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1979.
Okecki, Stanislaw, ed. Polish Resistance Movement in Poland and Abroad, 1939-1945. Warsaw: PWN, 1987.
Zaloga, Steven, and Victor Madej. The Polish Campaign of 1939. New York: Hippocrene, 1985.
Zamoyski, Adam. The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. New York: Hippocrene, 1995.
| The Underground, Occupation, and Warsaw
Uprising, 1939-45 |
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Bialoszewski, Miron. A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
Ciechanowski, Jan M. The Warsaw Rising of 1944. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Davies, Norman. "The Misunderstood Victory in Europe." New York Review of Books 42, no. 9 (May 25, 1995): 7-11.
Garlinski, Jozef. Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp. New York: Fawcett, 1978.
----. The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer. London: Blackwell, 1991.
Gross, Jan Tomasz. Polish Society Under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.
----. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Karski, Jan. Story of a Secret State. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1944.
Klukowski, Zygmunt. Diary from the Years of Occupation, 1939-44. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Korbonski, Stefan. Between the Hammer and the Anvil. New York: Hippocrene, 1981.
----. Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1968.
----. The Polish Underground State, 1939-1945. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1978.
Lukas, Richard C. Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene, 1994.
----. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Nowak, Jan. Courier from Warsaw. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Okecki, Stanislaw, ed. Polish Resistance Movement in Poland and Abroad, 1939-1945. Warsaw: PWN, 1987.
Paul, Allen. Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991
Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Vengenance of the Swallows: A Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Agression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1995.
Proch, Franciszek J. Poland's Way of the Cross, 1939-1945. New York: Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps, n.d. (1980s).
Slowes, Salomon W. The Road to Katyn: A Soldier's Story. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Zamoyska-Panek, Christine, with Fred Benton Holmberg. Have You Forgotten? A Memoir of Poland, 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Zawodny, J. K. Death in the Forest: The Story of Katyn Forest Massacre. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1962.
----. Nothing But Honor: The Story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1978.
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