The secret army : the memoirs of General Bór-Komorowski / by Komorowski, Tadeusz, 1895-1966

Table of Contents: “…Deputy Commander of the Home Army, Warsaw""; ""III. Commander-in-Chief, Home Army""; ""Part Two""; ""IV. …”
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Poland in the Second World War / by Garliński, Józef

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Outbreak of War -- The September Campaign in Poland -- The Partition of Poland -- The Underground under German and Soviet Occupation -- Polish Government and Army in France -- The Church -- The Collapse of France: The Polish Government in London -- The Rebuilding of the Polish Army in Great Britain: The Polish Air Force -- The German Attack on USSR and the Uneasy Polish Alliance with Russia -- The Polish Underground State -- Further War Developments and Polish Participation -- The Polish Army in Russia and its Evacuation -- The Plight of the Polish Jews -- The Polish Army in the Middle East and Crisis in London -- Polish Communists in USSR -- Underground Fight in Poland, Arrest of General Rowecki: Death of General Sikorski -- Difficulties with Communists: 'Tempest'; Teheran -- Second Polish Corps for Italy, Other Polish Formations -- New Developments in Poland, Monte Cassino, Falaise: 'Tempest" -- 'Tempest', Communists' manifesto, attempt on Hitler's Life, Italy, 'Bridges' -- The Warsaw Uprising -- Polish Units in further Combat: Conference in Moscow -- The Last Soviet Offensive: Dissolution of the Home Army; Yalta -- Conference in San Francisco, Provisional Government of National Unity; Testament of Fighting Poland; End of the War.…”

The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery / by Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948

Entangled in fear : everyday terror in Poland, 1944-1947 / by Zaremba, Marcin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Before there was fear -- In the labyrinth of fear -- Fear in the interwar culture : the Bolsheviks and "Jewish communism" -- The trauma of a World War : psychosocial effects of the Second World War -- In the beginning was chaos -- "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" : the dreaded Red Army -- The demobilized -- Looting fever -- Outlaws : "The Dishonored Soldiers' Peasant War -- It was more than just travel nerves -- The politics of fear -- The phantoms of transience -- The three horsemen of the Apocalypse : hunger, high prices, and infectious diseases -- Ethnic phobias and violence -- Conclusion : "The boogeyman."…”
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The Warsaw Rising of 1944 / by Ciechanowski, Jan M.

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Katyn : a crime without punishment /

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The extermination center for Jews in Chełmno-on-Ner in the light of the latest research : symposium proceedings, September 6-7, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Liquidation of the Jews of the Łodz ghetto in the Chełmno-on-Ner extermination camp / Julian Baranowski -- The extermination center in Chełmno-on-Ner in the Nazi plan of the Holocaust / Shmuel (Stefan) Krakowski -- Archeological research in the grounds of the Chełmno-on-Ner extermination center / Łucja Pawlicka-Nowak -- Labor camp for Jews in Konin-Czarków based on Rabbi Jehoshua Moshe Aaronson's memoirs "Alei Merorot" / Iwona Brzewska -- Return transports (Rücktransporte) : the elimination of prisoners unfit for work from forced labor camps for Jews in the Wielkopolska province / Anna Ziołkowska -- Following in the footsteps of Jews : Polish prisoners of war : an attempt to reconstruct the fates of soldiers of the Polish Army in German captivity (1939-1945) / Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska -- Marked by the "breath of death" : Jewish jewelry found in the Kulmhof extermination center / Marek Budziarek -- Christians in the Łodz ghetto / Julian Baranowski -- Murderers from the Chełmno-on-Ner extermination center before the judiciary / Janusz Gulczyński.…”

A wall of two : poems of resistance and suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and beyond / by Karmel-Wolfe, Henia

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Preface: To an unknown reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Key to translators -- Poems -- Autobiography: Childhood -- March of the fifteen-year-old boys -- Us -- Procession -- Land of Germany -- German uniform mania -- Pursuit at night -- To a friend from a strange planet -- Fatherland -- Day will come -- Night among Frenchwomen -- Mark on the wall -- Snapshots -- On learning of the latest transport -- Days of vengeance -- Flight for life -- Origin of a poem -- Terrifying laughter -- Our blood -- Time -- Strange poem -- Child's vision of peace -- My life -- Verses -- Answer -- Demand -- Abscess -- To our professors -- Prison nights -- Harmonica -- Fear in the barracks -- When you find out -- Encounter -- Two machines -- Christ lonely -- To the rhythm of a very fast waltz -- Robots -- Bread -- Pears -- Waiting -- Gallows -- Army in retreat -- Anniversaries -- Memory: Skarzysko -- To the German people -- At Laban's grave -- Meditation in an air raid shelter -- My language -- Movie -- Converts -- Bastard -- To my Hungarian brothers -- No one is calling -- My songs -- To Jews abroad -- My freedom -- Letter from the hospital -- Second letter -- Purim 1946 -- Autobiography: Youth -- Open letter to Julian Tuwim-1947 -- Afterword / Leon Wolfe -- Notes on the translations -- About the translators -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments of permissions.…”
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Ashes and diamonds

Neighbors : the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland / by Gross, Jan Tomasz

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Veterans, victims, and memory : the politics of the Second World War in communist Poland / by Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Changes'They gather almost every day and muck-rake in the past'; Against the monopoly of memory; ZBoWiD in the provinces: the case of Lublin region; The Myth of Unity: Formation; The 'family of combatants' and criteria for verification; 'Let's do patriotism'; Anti-German attitudes; The Second ZBoWiD Congress; Chapter 5: The Myth of Innocence (1960-69); Clientelism: 'We Have Been Able to Arrange It'; The Partisans; 'Only ZBoWiD can speak in the name of the Home Army tradition'; Partisan culture; Rival Martyrologies; Wartime martyrdom; Anti-Semitism; The innocent Poles and the ungrateful Jews…”
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Providence watching : journeys from wartorn Poland to the Canadian Prairies / by Patalas, K. 1925-

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Kaia, heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising / by Ziolkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra, 1949-

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Oblicza wojny.

Table of Contents: “…With the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in the Background / Tomasz Gliniecki -- Uzbrojenie oraz wyposażenie materiałowo-techniczne oddziałów inżynieryjnych Wojska Polskiego w latach 1945-2010 = The Armament, Material and Technical Equipment of the Engineering Units of the Polish Army in the years 1945-2010 / Robert -- Pietrygała Koncepcja wspólnej armii arabskiej Lig Państw Arabskich z 2015 r. jako narzędzia do walki z terroryzmem = The Concept of a Joint Arab Force of the League of Arab States From 2015 as a Tool to Fight against Terrorism / Magdalena Pogońska-Polol.…”
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Forgotten wars : Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-1916 / by Borodziej, Włodzimierz, Górny, Maciej, 1976-

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