Poland Books


The Zookeeper's Wife: A War StoryThe Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Best Price: $14.20
This book was a disappointment. It sounded so interesting. A true war story of the Warsaw Zoo....
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in PolandOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Best Price: $4.55
Christopher Browning is a distinguished historian of the horror of the Nazi holacaust against...
Survival In AuschwitzSurvival In Auschwitz
Best Price: $4.95
Mr. Levi's ability to recount his experience with such emotional clarity allowed me to take in a...
All But My LifeAll But My Life
Best Price: $5.45
This is one of the first Holocaust survival stories that I read. It is by far one that has...
Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/BoxedMaus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
Best Price: $15.95
Although I am not Jewish I feel the same as the Jews that Holocaust books MUST be read. I was...


Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas ChambersEyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Best Price: $7.36
An outstanding account of one man's experiance. I liked the way the story was told with more of...
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, PolandNeighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Best Price: $8.40
This book is very informative and depressingly good. I read it twice, doing lots of underlying...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness AccountAuschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Best Price: $7.03
The problem with this book is that it thrusts a very negative and dark side of life into all...
The Great EscapeThe Great Escape
Best Price: $7.89
The Real Deal! No "Steve Mcqueen" character, but everyone a true hero.The Great Escape
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New LanguageLost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Best Price: $8.45
this was one of the best books i've ever read. it was packed with profound insights. the writing...


Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque LandAuschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land
Best Price: $11.61
This book is a fascinating. I enjoyed the different stories that wove this book together. I'm...
Another Day of LifeAnother Day of Life
Best Price: $7.89
Kapuscinski was the only journalist in Angola during that time. He arrived there in september, I...
Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the ArchiveRemnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
Best Price: $11.76
Remnants of Auschwitz is one of Agamben's earlier works, but his cutting intelligence definitely...
A Traveller's History of Poland (Traveller's History Series)A Traveller's History of Poland (Traveller's History Series)
Best Price: $8.98
Even if you're not traveling, you can travel in your armchair with this history. A great way to...
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the HolocaustThey Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust
Best Price: $25.35
This book is a treasure! It provides reminiscences in text and in paintings of a Polish Jewish...

The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Masters of Fantastic Art)The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Masters of Fantastic Art)
Best Price: $14.65
wow, the images of beksinski always have a dark hole in them which draws you in. what an...
A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories)A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Best Price: $11.49
This book gives balanced detail to the different epochs of Polish history beginning with...
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives)From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives)
Best Price: $12.92
I thought this book was okay, but for some reason I was not as enthralled by it as "Escape...
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's PresentHeart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
Best Price: $12.49
In the preface to the first edition published in 1984, Norman Davies writes, "No history...
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution BeganCopernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
Best Price: $5.70
Reading about science and scientists can sometimes be tedious. Only the best writers are able to...

The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945
Best Price: $2.80
This is an excellent historical primer on the initiation, conduct, discovery, and destruction of...
God's Playground, Vol. 2: A History of PolandGod's Playground, Vol. 2: A History of Poland
Best Price: $23.50
Pros: As far as I can tell this book has been written objectively and describes the history of...
Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945
Best Price: $8.39
Excellent book. Covers the Eastern front from a General's point of view who explains his...
Echoes from the Holocaust: A MemoirEchoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir
Best Price: $7.95
Mira lived to tell the tale of the holocaust. She's carried the message of strength and...
Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)
Best Price: $22.72
A fantastic, I am tempted to say a definitive book about this compelling issue. For sure a...

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of ModernityJews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity
Best Price: $23.41
It is well worth reading but I wish it was longer and more detailed. And, would it be so...
Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto FighterMemoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
Best Price: $7.00
I am disappointed in this book. The premise is good, and the author lived through it. However,...
Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism Series)Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism Series)
Best Price: $28.13
The Polish people suffered dearly in the Second World War. Three Million Jewish Poles were...
For Those I LovedFor Those I Loved
Best Price: $2.99
I just had the "pleasure" of having to remove all my books from my office so the room...
Every Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from PolandEvery Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland
Best Price: $10.00
The correspondence from Polish Jews living during the early phases of the German occupation of...

Weeds Like UsWeeds Like Us
Best Price: $13.09
I finished this book in a matter of days, because it was so interesting! Gunter Nitsch tells a...
The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto UprisingThe Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Best Price: $8.98
Unfortunately, because of their difficult Polish names, the main characters did not stick in my...
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
Best Price: $7.32
This book is an incredible story of survival. I have seen the movie also. I would recommend both!
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
Best Price: $15.50
Well, being born in one of those Central Belarussian towns I would say I agree with 95% of...
Rising '44: The Battle for WarsawRising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
Best Price: $10.64
Norman Davies gives us a work of art in Rising 44. We expect impeccable research from one of the...

A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His CountryA Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country
Best Price: $3.81
Move over, James Bond! Instead of repeating other reviewers, let's focus mostly on the...
Lodz Ghetto: A History (Philanthropic & Nonprofit Stud)Lodz Ghetto: A History (Philanthropic & Nonprofit Stud)
Best Price: $16.21
LODOZ GHETTO: A HISTORY represents the first English translation of Isiah Trunk's study,...
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz GhettoThe Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
Best Price: $11.00
This review is based on the 1996 Oxford hardback edition. Sierakowiak devotes a considerable...
Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryMaus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Best Price: $22.00
I must say that I find this work hard to properly describe in terms of how I feel about it. I...
Polish RootsPolish Roots
Best Price: $15.00
Gave me some excellent sources of information to futher pursue family tree. Sources were many...

Polish Sausages, Authentic Recipes And InstructionsPolish Sausages, Authentic Recipes And Instructions
Best Price: $17.73
I'll echo Len Poli's critique of this book. This is a must-have. While many of the recipes seem...
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition)The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition)
Best Price: $15.80
This book, as far as I can tell, remains to this day one of the best written and most...
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and "The Miracle on the Vistula"White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and "The Miracle on the Vistula"
Best Price: $18.72
The "Miracle of the Vistula" was undoubtedly one of the most decisive battles in...
Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf HoessCommandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
Best Price: $8.21
After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to...
TreblinkaTreblinka
Best Price: $8.99
The following review is based on the original (1967) edition. The book begins with accounts of...

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German KillersNazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers
Best Price: $3.87
Meticulously researched and documented about the bestial crimes visited on the Jews by the SS,...
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German KillersNazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers
Best Price: $3.87
Meticulously researched and documented about the bestial crimes visited on the Jews by the SS,...
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto UprisingResistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Best Price: $10.45
I find this to be one of the most interesting books that I have read about the Warsaw Ghetto...
Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (Jewish Lives)Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (Jewish Lives)
Best Price: $13.64
Richard Glazar was one of the few people to have survived the Treblinka death camp. He was...
From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's AutobiographyFrom A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography
Best Price: $11.24
I am a teacher who has had the privilege of hearing Mr. Wiener several times, as a guest speaker...

Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition)Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition)
Best Price: $18.00
An interesting book. The first section describes the gradual tightening of legal restrictions on...
After Long SilenceAfter Long Silence
Best Price: $2.35
I'm sorry but I couldn't finish it... so I did not get to the part of the author being lesbian...
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, And Atrocity (Modern War Studies)Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, And Atrocity (Modern War Studies)
Best Price: $11.22
Rossino recognizes the fact that German plans to destroy Poland went far beyond the...
Notes from the Warsaw GhettoNotes from the Warsaw Ghetto
Best Price: $8.75
After I read the book "Diary of Mary Berg" I was so intrigued that I looked up some of...
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of EishyshokThere Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Best Price: $8.45
I feel renewed horror that, to this day, Polish and Lithuanian reviewers use this format to try...
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