Polish Invasion
Could one say about the years that Polish soldiers spent in Scotland: they were the best of times, they were the worst of times?
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2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero
Private Wojtek really was a member of the Polish II Corps, saw action at Monte Cassino, Ancona and Bologna. As one Italian newspaper put it: Wojtek l’orso che libero l’Italia. Wojtek now has a monument in Edinburgh and in Poland. Rome, anyone?
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010
A 16th century mayor of Warsaw was a Scottish immigrant. In the 1940s, and again this century, Scotland has welcomed Poles. Time to renew this “auld acquaintance… for auld lang syne.”
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Scotland and Poland: for Auld Lang Syne
By the time the Scots and the Poles renewed their acquaintance during World War II, “the Poles often began by assuming that the Scots were a sort of English… and the Scots in turn by assuming that Poles were a sort of Russian.” A temporary misunderstanding that soon led to a solid friendship.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
A Polish Book of Monsters: Five Dark Tales from Contemporary Poland
A new translation of eerie stories by contemporary Polish writers. From PIASA Books.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss’s poetic biography glows in the dark, not with the garish light of fluorescence but with the mysterious, deep inner light of radium.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
2011 – The Year of Marie Skłodowska-Curie
The greatest scientist of the last century is celebrated on the 100th anniversary of her second Nobel Prize.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
The Katyń Order – A Novel of WWII Reviewed
American novelist Doug Jacobson weaves a fictional tale against the background of the great crime.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Interviews
CR Talks To… Doug Jacobson, Author of The Katyń Order
Maureen Mroczek Morris talks to to the author of The Katyń Order about the use of fiction to tell a historical tale.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
This Way: Covering/uncovering Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Artists from Europe, America, Australia and Asia try to capture the essence of Tadeusz Borowski’s stories from Auschwitz published in 1948. But can art capture the essence of Auschwitz?
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Films
Polish Movie Nite presents Julian Myers & Chris Fitzpatrick: Wajda’s The Promised Land
Polish Movie Nite: Polish cinema, viewed and reviewed by Americans, leads them to a better understanding of “the complexities of contemporary Poland.”
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Films
Polish Movie Nite presents Erica Levin: Kieślowski’s Camera Buff
Polish Movie Nite: Polish cinema, viewed and reviewed by Americans, leads them to a better understanding of “the complexities of contemporary Poland.”
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Inside a Community College: A General Psychology Class’ Analyses of Krystyna Wituska
A drama based on the letters of a young Polish resistance fighter, Krystyna Wituska, is discussed by students in a psychology class at Luzerne Community College in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Vince Chesney reports.
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