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 / 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 / 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.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 1 — Spring / Books
Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945: A Review
While Poland fought a war with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Hollywood launched its own propaganda war – on the side of Stalin. Piotr Wrobel reviews a remarkable study of some very nasty realpolitik.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 1 — Spring / Books
303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron: A Review
Aquila Polonica’s beautiful new edition of the 1942 classic is attracting attention not only as a “real time” tour de force, but it’s filling a great need. No less a magazine than the Atlantic Monthly, or Flying Magazine for that matter, wonder why they never knew about these heroic Polish airmen.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 1 — Spring / Books
Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: A Visit to Montreal
The Yale historian’s new book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, is about the 14 million civilian deaths in the area between Berlin and Moscow at the hands of Hitler and Stalin in the space of 12 years. Western historians have been silent on this subject for far too long.
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