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Reading List (compiled by John Radzilowski)

Pre World War II
World War II
The Underground, Occupation, Warsaw Uprising
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Pre World War II   Top of Page

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.


World War II   Top of Page

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   Top of Page

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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