Poland Interrupted

Author : Gordon Snider
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359568741

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Poland Interrupted: A Journey: A Novel by Gordon Snider Pdf

Merriam Press World War 2 Fiction Series. Poland Interrupted follows the tumultuous life of Kaz Kowinsky, a boy who comes of age in Krakow following the Great War. When Germany invades at the start of World War II Kaz goes to Gydnia attempting to reach his naval unit but is turned back by German tanks. Then taken prisoner, beaten, and barely escapes with his life. He returns to Krakow where he joins his best friend in the resistance movement. They spy on the Germans, smuggle food and arms to the partisans fighting in the nearby Tatras Mountains, rescue a famous Jewish mathematician from prison, ambush trains. Not all goes as planned. Kaz becomes a fugitive and flees into the Tatras Mountains where he continues to spy on the Germans. Germany is finally pushed back by the allies and slowly retreats from Poland, only to be replaced by Russians who are more brutal than the Germans. Kaz has lost everything and soon realizes that his only hope for survival is to stow away on a ship and flee his beloved country.

Author : Stefan Kieniewicz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226435268

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Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry by Stefan Kieniewicz Pdf

Captured in this study are the complexity and fascination of one hundred and fifty years of Polish political, cultural, and socioeconmic history. The author traces the course of peasant emancipation in Poland from its beginnings during the Enlightenment to its aftermath in the cultural awakening of the peasantry during the half century prior to World War I and shows how the peasant question played a vital role in the struggle for independence in partitioned Poland. The book synthesizes, for the first time in any language, the work of leading Polish historians during the present century. It presents a clear analysis of the disintegration of the economic system based on serfdom and compulsory labor prevalent in feudal Poland and traces the emergence of modern capitalist conditions, including wage labor and independent property rights. Also analyzed is the role of foreign goverments in the emacipation process. The freeing of the serfs took place during a period when all or most of the country was under the rule of Russia, Prussia, or Austria. Although emancipation was due primarily to economic forces withing Poland, it was hastened by peasant resistance and the national struggle for political independence led by Polish patriots who demanded far-reaching social reforms. This comprehensive study provides valuable information not only to those with a particular interest in Poland but also to scholars concerned with the parallel problems in Russia andother Eastern Eurpean countries, to specialists in agrarian history, and to students of Eastern European history who lack adequate reading materials in English.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Books
ISBN : UIUC:30112056665349

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The Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Artillery
ISBN : UIUC:30112065511013

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Journal of the United States Artillery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004457393

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The Heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz by Anonim Pdf

This book presents Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's philosophy. Ajdukiewicz was one of the most distinguished and important philosophers of the contemporary Poland. He produced important ideas in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and ontology. He influenced Polish analytic philosophy very much. The collection gives a general account of Ajdukiewicz philosophy and it is the only full presentation of his ideas available in Western languages. The volume is of interest for everybody working in analytic philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069256901

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Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. S. Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Generals
ISBN : HARVARD:HXVAEN

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Suvóroff by H. S. Spalding Pdf

Author : Lynn W. Zimmerman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786478613

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Jewish Studies and Holocaust Education in Poland by Lynn W. Zimmerman Pdf

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust. The main text provides background on concepts such as culture, identity and stereotypes, as well as on specific topics such as Holocaust education as curriculum, various educational institutions, and the connection of arts and cultural festivals to identity and culture. It also gives a brief overview of Polish history and Jewish history in Poland, as well as providing insight into how the Holocaust and Jewish life and culture are viewed and taught in present-day Poland. This background material is supported by essays by Poles who have been active in the changes that have taken place in Poland since 1989. A young Jewish-Polish man gives insight into what it is like to grow up in contemporary Poland, and a Jewish-Polish woman who was musical director and conductor of the Jewish choir, Tslil, gives her view of learning through the arts. Essays by Polish scholars active in Holocaust education and curriculum design give past, present and future perspectives of learning about Jewish history and culture.

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781681771205

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Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane by Paul Thomas Murphy Pdf

On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling in the muddy road. She stretched out her hand to him, collapsed in the mud, muttered, “Let me die,” and slipped into a coma. Five days later, she died, her identity still unknown.Within hours of her discovery, scores of Metropolitan Police officers were involved in the investigation, while Scotland Yard sent one of its top detectives to lead it. On the day of her death, the police discovered the girl's identity: Jane Maria Clouson, a sixteen-year-old servant to the Pooks, a respectable Greenwich family. Hours later, they arrested her master's son, twenty-year-old Edmund, for her murder.An epic tale of law and disorder, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane is the story of the majesty—and the travesty—of the nineteenth-century British legal system. Using an abundant collection of primary sources, Paul Thomas Murphy creates a gripping narrative of the police procedural and the ensuing legal drama, and, applying contemporary forensic methods to this Victorian cold case, reveals definitively the identity of Jane Clouson's murderer.

Author : Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131664406

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Decoding Clausewitz by Jon Tetsuro Sumida Pdf

A pathbreaking critique of the thought of military studies icon Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz and his magnum opus On War that illuminates why and how that work should be viewed as much more mature, coherent, innovative, and complete than suggested by previous accounts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2993321

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The New Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Piotr Florczyk,K. A. Wisniewski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501387111

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Polish Literature as World Literature by Piotr Florczyk,K. A. Wisniewski Pdf

This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to the 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged with their foreign counterparts and other traditions, active participants in the global literary network and the conversations of their day. The volume features views of Polish literature and culture within theories of world literature and literary systems, with a particular attention paid to the resurgence of the idea of the physical book as a cultural artifact. This perspective is especially important since so much of today's global literary output stems from Anglophone perceptions of what constitutes literary quality and tastes. The collection also sheds light on specific issues pertaining to Poland, such as the idea of Polishness, and global phenomena, including social and economic advancement as well as ecological degradation. Some of the authors discussed, like the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz or the 1980 Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, were renowned far beyond the borders of their country, while others, like the contemporary travel writer and novelist Andrzej Stasiuk, embrace regionalism, seeing as they do in their immediate surroundings a synecdoche of the world at large. Nevertheless, the picture of Polish literature and Polish authors that emerges from these articles is that of a diverse, cosmopolitan cohort engaged in a mutually rewarding relationship with what the late French critic Pascale Casanova has called “the world republic of letters.”

Author : Wayne C. Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475818833

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Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2015-2016 by Wayne C. Thompson Pdf

This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, decentralization and states if a federation, parties, political leaders, and elections. There are also sections on foreign and defense policy, economy, culture, future, and a comprehensive bibliography. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.Now in its 14th edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student and library budgets.

Author : Luise Mühlbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Austria
ISBN : MSU:31293000792246

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Joseph the Second and His Court by Luise Mühlbach Pdf

Author : Caroline Pichler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001485555

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The Siege of Vienna. A Tale of 1683. Translated from the German by Caroline Pichler Pdf