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Has anybody read: Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present


cjjc 29 | 408  
16 Jan 2009 /  #1
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present. If so was it any good? Should get mine in 5 days. :) Any other good Poland related books?
Kilkline 1 | 689  
16 Jan 2009 /  #2
I have and found it a bit dry. Also the way in which ND covers the subject in reverse chronology is a little bit disorienting.
OP cjjc 29 | 408  
16 Jan 2009 /  #3
overs the subject in reverse chronology

Oh you are joking?

I hate that style. It's bad enough reading history books I much prefer to spend my time learning but I decided I need to brush up on my English reading whilst finding out about an interesting topic.
kioko - | 84  
16 Jan 2009 /  #4
I think all Norman Davies's books are good. I finished "Powstanie 44" recently. He writes the truth, even if it's bitter. I personally love soldiers's memoirs books, especially about the uprising of '44. But I don't know how many of them are in English.
Kilkline 1 | 689  
16 Jan 2009 /  #5
Oh you are joking?

Nope. It starts with Solidarnosc I think and then goes back thourgh different periods. I'f you want to read a good book related to Poland read Warsaw Rising all by Norman Davies.
HWPiel 1 | 64  
16 Jan 2009 /  #6
As a graduate student of History, Davies is what I desire to become withn Polish history.

I read the book, have it in my collection, and I think Norman Davies is the top-Polish Historian of our era. He is to Polish History what J P Taylor was to World War 1 history. Some claim Davies to be biased because of his wife's ancestry - hogwash I say. As the other gentleman above mention, Davies tells it as it is, was and might be and it might not be what we always want to hear.

Henry

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