Recommended Reading

Diane Ackerman

• The Zookeeper's Wife

Wesley Adamczyk

• When God Looked the Other Way

Anne Applebaum

• Gulag: A History

Timothy Garton Ash

• The Polish Revolution: Solidarity

M.B.B. Biskupski

• Hollywood’s War With Poland, 1939-1945

John Bukowczyk

• A History of the Polish Americans
• Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

• Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland 1939-1947
• After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War Two

Norman Davies

• Europe at War 1939-1945
• Europe: A History
• Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw
• White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20
• God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Volume I & Volume II)
• Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland

Yisrael Guttman and Michael Brenbaum, Editors

• The Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Gustav Herling (aka Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski)

• A World Apart: A Journal of a Gulag Survivor

Eva Hoffman

• Shtetl: The life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews

Anna D. Jarszynska-Kirchmann

• The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939-1956

Karolina Lanckoronska

• Michaelangerlo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis (British Edition –
  Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis)

Rulka Langer

• The Mermaid and the Messerschmidtt: War Through a Woman's Eyes

Richard Lukas

• Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children 1939-1945
• The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1944
• Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation

Danuta Mostwin

• Testaments: Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile

Lynn Olson & Stanley Cloud

• A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron, Forgotten Heroes of World War II

Allen Paul

• Katyń: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth

Neal Pease

• Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939

Marci Shore

• Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death

Timothy Snyder

• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999 (This book won the best book award for Polish history at the international convocation of historians in Kraków.)
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
• Bloodlands:  Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Alex Storozynski

• The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

Irene Tomaszewski

• Inside a Gestapo Prison 1942-1944: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska
• Code Name Żegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland,1942-1945 – the Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Wartime Europe (co-authored with Tecia Werbowski)

Adam Zagajewski

• Eternal Enemies
• Without End: New and Selected Poems

Adam Zamoyski

• The Polish Way: A Thousand Year History of the Poles and Their Culture