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A writer, Herling-Grudzinski was an outspoken critic of communism in his native Poland and of the Soviet political machine. The Soviets promptly imprisoned him in a labor camp. He escaped after two years and joined the Polish underground. His book Inny Swiat (Another World or A World Apart) described his prison experience. Herling-Grudzinski later co-founded the magazine Kultura to inform Poles about cultural and political issues during the communist era, and worked for Radio Free Europe. He died 4 July in Italy from a stroke. He was 81. From This is True for 2 July 2000 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Steven Lee Wiggins List Price: $12.99 Amazon Price: $12.73 Editorial Review: Historical fiction. Deep in the Nazi empire, an Undergound has arisen in Poland. Braving constant persecution, secret agents such as Bronek Pietraszewicz sabotage the Nazi war machine and assassinate Nazi police thugs. But then SS Brigadier General Franz Kutschera arrives in Warsaw, bringing with him a new kind of terror. For months, he arrests and executes thousands of civilians. Finally young Bronek is given the mission: assassinate General Kutschera. But to carry out his mission, Bronek must be willing to sacrifice everything he treasures.  By: Stefan Korbonski List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $13.45 Editorial Review: Fighting Warsaw is an extraordinary human story. The author, leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the second world war, and the beginning of the anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire organisation, strategy and tactics of the Polish underground, which included armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts. This new edition contains an introduction by his wife Zofia as well as 16 pages of previously unpublished personal photographs.  By: Spencer BrightFlorian Mayevski List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $24.95  By: Marian S. Mazgaj List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $35.00 Editorial Review: Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was just a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II. Although Mazgaj was too young to join the Polish army at the time, within a few years he became a member of the Sandomierz Flying Commando Unit, a unit which merged with the "Jedrus" Polish underground group.This memoir provides a vivid record of Mazgaj's career in the military. The Sandomierz Flying Commando Unit and the "Jedrus" underground were actively engaged in fighting the Nazi forces in Poland during World War II, and the author provides a firsthand account of the groups' roles in attacking and disarming German military units; destroying the enemy's grain warehouses and administrators; and receiving air drops of weapons, ammunition, and explosives from the Allies. He also describes the incorporation of his partisan group into the Home Army, whereby he and his comrades became the Fourth Company in the Second Regiment of the Second Division, gaining strength and destroying many more German units. From the Polish Underground: Selections from Krytyka, 1978-1993 By: Michael Bernhard List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $29.95 Editorial Review: A collection of writings taken from "Krytyka", one of Poland's leading intellectual journals. The articles, written between 1978 and 1993, cover the full range of topics and political views presented by the journal and provide an overview of Poland's turbulent history since the late 1970s. |
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