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The Doll

The Doll
  • Author(s): Boleslaw Prus
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a...

Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45

Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45
  • Author(s): Marek Edelman
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Era(s): 1943-45

This remarkable memoir by Marek Edelman, member of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance five-person command team, tells first-hand of the struggle of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis in the spring of 1943. Features a new introduction by John Rose, author...

The Good Doctor of Warsaw

The Good Doctor of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Gifford
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’ Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under...

The Walls Came Down

The Walls Came Down
  • Author(s): Ewa Dodd
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Chicago, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A young boy goes missing during a workers’ strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and continents. Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is still looking for her brother, who’s...

The Black Madonna of Derby

The Black Madonna of Derby
  • Author(s): Joanna Czechowska
  • Location(s): Derby, Krakow, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Three generations of a Polish immigrant family are living in Derby in 1964 when the grandmother decides she wants to return to her homeland to make peace with her relatives and await death. Her war-traumatised daughter remains in Derby...

Saying Goodbye to Warsaw

Saying Goodbye to Warsaw
  • Author(s): Michael Cargill
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940

Like any girl who is loved by her family, Abigail Nussbaum loves to chase butterflies, enjoys lying on her back looking for shapes in the clouds, and happily teaches young children to make daisy chains. In the eyes of...

Spies of Warsaw

Spies of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1937

Warsaw in the late 1930s,the looming menace of Hitler’s Germany on one side and Stalin’s Russia on the other. Colonel Mercier is a French military attache based in Warsaw, and is given the task to discover how, if war...

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