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	Eyewitness Guide Poland  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES A compact, visual guide to the history, culture and attractions of Poland featuring hundreds of color photographs, maps and diagrams. (PLD21, $25.00)
	Heart of Europe, The Past in Poland's Present  •  Norman Davies HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 483 PAGES A history of Poland in reverse chronology from the Solidarity Movement to early civilization, condensed from the author's definitive three-volume history. (PLD06, $21.95)
	Kingdom of Auschwitz  •  Otto Friedrich HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The entire history of Auschwitz, from its impractical site in a Polish swamp through its construction and terrible purpose, is covered in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. Black-and-white maps show the layout of the camp along with its relation to other nearby camps and transfer points. A must for the visitor wanting a deeper understanding of one of humankind's darkest creations. (PLD04, $11.00)
	Poland  •  James Michener LITERATURE •  1990 •  PAPER  • 616 PAGES In his epic style, Michener presents the sweep of Polish history from the earliest days to 1983 in this massively researched -- and fascinating -- novel. His focus is on the struggle for freedom. An excellent choice for reading on the airplane! (PLD02, $7.99)
	Poland Map  •   Michelin Travel Publications 2005 •  MAP A self-folding full color map of Poland at a scale of 1:700,000, updated annually. (PLD20, $11.95)

	Culture Smart! Poland, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette  •  Greg Allen   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (PLD68, $9.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Cracow  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Cracow features color photography, easy-to-use maps and top attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (PLD54, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Warsaw  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive visual guide to the city featuring great neighborhood maps, architectural diagrams, photographs and an excellent overview of the culture and history of the city. With a section on what to see, where to eat, stay and shop. (PLD08, $20.00)
	Insight Pocket Guide Warsaw  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With a pull-out map, practical information and ten suggested itineraries, this slim, shirt-pocket guide is perfect for a brief visit to Warsaw. (PLD51, $13.95)
	Rough Guide Poland  •  Mark Salter   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive travel guide, including an excellent historical and cultural overview of Poland. (PLD09, $22.99)
	A Traveller's History of Poland  •  John Radzilowski   • HISTORY  •  A wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed brief history of Poland through the 1990s. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (PLD53, $14.95)
	Bury Me Standing  •  Isabel Fonseca   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions, folk traditions, and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $14.95)
	Cracow, An Illustrated History  •  Zdzislaw Zygulski   • HISTORY  •  A slender history of the Polish city, from its founding to the present day, with 50 black-and-white illustrations. The author is a curator at the National Museum of Cracow. (PLD33, $12.95)
	Hitler and the Holocaust  •  Robert S. Wistrich   • HISTORY  •  A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II. (EUR114, $13.95)
	Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore  •  Sophie Hodorowitz Knab  •  Mary Anne Knab   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Organized by months and holidays, this book surveys traditions and customs of the past and present. While many of the celebrations have been lost over the years, Knab rejuvenates interest in these unique, oft-forgotten ways. (PLD19, $22.50)
	Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising  •  Israel Gutman   • HISTORY  •  An account of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi control, gleaned from the author's first-hand experience. He also places the ghetto experience in the context of Jewish history in general. (PLD17, $16.95)
	The Grooves of Change, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium  •  J.F. Brown   • HISTORY  •  A survey of the events from the fall of communism to 2000 by a leading scholar. Brown discusses social and political change in the region, prospects for the future -- and the growing economic rift between East Central and South Eastern Europe. (EUR90, $23.95)
	The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism  •  Tina Rosenberg   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments. (EUR54, $16.95)
	The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918  •  Piotr S. Wandyc   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly history of Poland during the period when it was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. Originally published in 1975, this volume in the "History of East Central Europe" series is the most comprehensive book on the subject. (PLD35, $27.50)
	The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague  •  Timothy Garton Ash   • HISTORY  •  An astute journalist's vivid eyewitness account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other dramatic events of 1989. (GER36, $13.95)
	The Polish Revolution, Solidarity  •  Timothy Garton Ash   • HISTORY  •  The definitive account of the rise -- and fall -- of the Solidarity movement in Poland by an astute observer. Garton Ash combines research, interview and analysis in weaving his vivid tale. Third edition. (PLD50, $23.00)
	The Polish Way, A Thousand Year History of the Poles and Their Culture  •  Adam Zamoyski   • HISTORY  •  An excellent overview of Polish culture and history, comprehensive, engaging and balanced. Zamoyski focuses especially on the period 1400-1800, writing with flair and authority about the origins of Polish nationhood. With maps and illustrations throughout. (PLD03, $19.95)
	Another Beauty  •  Adam Zagajewski  •  Clare Cavanagh  •  Susan Sontag   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A quirky, lyrical memoir of coming of age in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s by the influential poet of the Polish New Wave. (PLD37, $18.95)
	The Struggle and the Triumph, An Autobiography  •  Lech Walesa   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The inside story of the Solidarity movement by the man who made it happen. Walesa draws a detailed portrait of his rise from the Gdansk shipyards to become the first freely elected president of Poland. (PLD05, $20.99)
	The Zookeeper's Wife, A War Story  •  Diane Ackerman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A marvelous storyteller, Ackerman recalls madcap, bohemian Warsaw before WWII, the devastation of the city by Nazi bombs in 1939, the horrors of the holocaust and heroic efforts in the resistance in this moving tale of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, directors of Warsaw Zoo. (PLD70, $24.95)
	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen  •  Tadeusz Borowski  •  Barbara Vedder  •  Jan Kott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945. (GER95, $14.00)
	Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories  •  Hanna Krall  •  Madeline G. Levine   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII. (PLD49, $14.95)
	Polish Writers on Writing  •  Adam (EDT Zagajewski   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture considered one of the most important and influential of our time. (PLD63, $24.95)
	Cosmos and Pornografia, Two Novels  •  Witold Gombrowicz  •  Eric Mosbacher  •  Alastair Hamilton   • LITERATURE  •  Two absurd, unconventional novels, both set in Poland, by a modern master of Polish literature. Grombrowicz toys with Polish national traditions and social conventions in these blackly humorous works. (PLD16, $14.00)
	Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II  •  Art Spiegelman   • LITERATURE  •  The Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of Spiegelman's father and family in Poland as World War II erupts. He renders the story of his father's early life, Nazi occupation of Poland, survival in a concentration camp and other events as a stark graphic novel. (PLD22, $29.90)
	Schindler's List  •  Thomas Keneally   • LITERATURE  •  A landmark in literature about the Holocaust, this is the compelling story of the transformation of a Nazi tycoon and his rescue of 1,300 Jews from the concentration camps near Plaszow. (GER51, $15.00)
	Shosha  •  Isaac Bashevis Singer   • LITERATURE  •  A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists. (PLD18, $15.00)
	The Doll  •  Boleslaw Prus  •  David Welsh  •  Darius Tolczyk  •  Anna Zaranko   • LITERATURE  •  An 1890 landmark of Polish realist fiction, set among the middle classes in Warsaw in the late 19th century. Richly plotted, the book is wonderfully evocative of old Warsaw, and also a consideration of the value of revolution. (PLD32, $19.95)
	The Painted Bird  •  Jerzy Kosinski   • LITERATURE  •  The acclaimed novel based on the author's own experiences in World War II Poland. The often disturbing account of a young Jewish boy's journey through rural Poland as he tries to evade everyone from SS officers to anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression. (PLD07, $13.00)
	The Polish Officer, A Novel  •  Alan Furst   • LITERATURE  •  Rich in historical detail, this novel is a tale of espionage and bravery in WWII-era Poland. (PLD62, $13.95)
	The Street of Crocodiles  •  Bruno Schulz   • LITERATURE  •  These remarkable stories draw on Schulz's childhood and the people, places and events of provincial Poland in the early 20th century. (PLD24, $15.00)
	To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz  •  Czeslaw Milosz  •  Madeline G. Levine  •  Bogdana Carpenter   • LITERATURE  •  Culled from a lifetime's worth of publications, these essays by the Lithuanian-born Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz address the Polish experience at home and abroad in the 20th century. (PLD25, $16.00)
	Bradt Guide Central and Eastern European Wildlife  •  Gerard Gorman   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  An illustrated overview and guide to the plants, mammals, birds and other wildlife of the region. (CEU36, $25.99)

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