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Poland: A history

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I have chosen some of the world’s literature classics, written by Nobel Prize winners, and some books that are not so well known, even in Poland (to my surprise), there is also one representant of the young generation of authors. However, things are not going that well for the Jews living in Warsaw in 1937. The rise of Hitler is the beginning of a storm of epic proportions, and Jakub knows it.

Where most books about Polish history tend to cover World War II, Swallowing Mercury instead gives the reader a vibrant taste of the calmer side of 20th century Poland. As more people begin to turn up dead in increasingly strange circumstances, Janina decides to put her translations of William Blake aside and get involved in the investigation. As locals cross themselves at junctions and tie red strings around babies’ wrists to ward off evil spirits, Wiola observes the townsfolk and attempts to process their strange activities.

The roots of Polish history can be traced to ancient times, when the territory of present-day Poland was settled by various tribes including Celts, Scythians, Germanic clans, Sarmatians, Slavs and Balts. However, it was the West Slavic Lechites, the closest ancestors of ethnic Poles, who established permanent settlements in the Polish lands during the Early Middle Ages. [1] The Lechitic Western Polans, a tribe whose name means "people living in open fields", dominated the region and gave Poland - which lies in the North-Central European Plain - its name. The reign of the young Władysław III (1434–44), [21] who succeeded his father Władysław II Jagiełło and ruled as king of Poland and Hungary, was cut short by his death at the Battle of Varna against the forces of the Ottoman Empire. [21] [24] This disaster led to an interregnum of three years that ended with the accession of Władysław's brother Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1447. [ citation needed]

Further information: History of Poland (1939–1945) Invasions and resistance German battleship Schleswig-Holstein shells Westerplatte, 1 September 1939 The royal election of 1697 brought a ruler of the Saxon House of Wettin to the Polish throne: Augustus II the Strong (r. 1697–1733), who was able to assume the throne only by agreeing to convert to Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Augustus III (r. 1734–1763). [27] The reigns of the Saxon kings (who were both simultaneously prince-electors of Saxony) were disrupted by competing candidates for the throne and witnessed further disintegration of the Commonwealth. [ citation needed] Are you planning to travel to Poland? If yes, you would most certainly want to get the most out of your visit. Do you wish to really immerse yourself in the ambiance of the country and to understand its history, culture and traditions? To also gain an insider’s perspective?Gerhard Weinberg has argued that the most significant Polish contribution to World War II was sharing its code-breaking results. [152] This allowed the British to perform the cryptanalysis of the Enigma and decipher the main German military code, which gave the Allies a major advantage in the conflict. [153] As regards actual military campaigns, some Polish historians have argued that simply resisting the initial invasion of Poland was the country's greatest contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany, despite its defeat. The Polish Army of nearly one million men significantly delayed the start of the Battle of France, planned by the Germans for 1939. When the Nazi offensive in the West did happen, the delay caused it to be less effective, a possibly crucial factor in the victory of the Battle of Britain. [154] Maus is – so far – the only graphic novel to have won a Pulitzer Prize, and is one of the more popular choices for Holocaust books for high school and middle school. by Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska (Translator), Jerzy Ficowski (Introduction), Jonathan Safran Foer (Foreword)

Independence stimulated the development of Polish culture in the Interbellum and intellectual achievement was high. Warsaw, whose population almost doubled between World War I and World War II, was a restless, burgeoning metropolis. It outpaced Kraków, Lwów and Wilno, the other major population centers of the country. [84] Attempts to reunite the Polish lands gained momentum in the 13th century, and in 1295, Duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland managed to become the first ruler since Bolesław II to be crowned king of Poland. [12] He ruled over a limited territory and was soon killed. In 1300–05 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia also reigned as king of Poland. [12] The Piast Kingdom was effectively restored under Władysław I the Elbow-high (r. 1306–33), who became king in 1320. [12] In 1308, the Teutonic Knights seized Gdańsk and the surrounding region of Pomerelia. [12]

History of Poland in brief

The privileges of the szlachta (nobility) kept expanding and in 1425 the rule of Neminem captivabimus, which protected the noblemen from arbitrary royal arrests, was formulated. [21] Władysław III and Casimir IV Jagiellon King Casimir IV Jagiellon was the central figure of the Jagiellonian period Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most prominent Polish authors available in English with a handful of other unique Polish books already translated.

The Revolution of 1905–1907 in Russian Poland, [53] the result of many years of pent-up political frustrations and stifled national ambitions, was marked by political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion. The revolt was part of much broader disturbances throughout the Russian Empire associated with the general Revolution of 1905. In Poland, the principal revolutionary figures were Roman Dmowski and Józef Piłsudski. Dmowski was associated with the right-wing nationalist movement National Democracy, whereas Piłsudski was associated with the Polish Socialist Party. As the authorities re-established control within the Russian Empire, the revolt in Congress Poland, placed under martial law, withered as well, partially as a result of tsarist concessions in the areas of national and workers' rights, including Polish representation in the newly created Russian Duma. The collapse of the revolt in the Russian Partition, coupled with intensified Germanization in the Prussian Partition, left Austrian Galicia as the territory where Polish patriotic action was most likely to flourish. [76] Through this, Białoszewski manages to freeze and give longevity to a place that the Nazis almost wiped off the face of the Earth. The book is a portrait of the colorful, diverse, and multicultural city, but in fact Łódź and its industrial revolution, is shown as brutal, and exploiting the weakest, while destroying nature. This is a very interesting portrait of that times. I was doing some family research while reading this, and some of the chapters did help me contextualize what I was reading in documents my family had on file.Over a thousand years ago, there were three Slav brothers wandering with their tribes through the lands of forests and fields stretching between two large rivers, Oder in the west and Dnieper in the east, in search of the best place to settle. One day, after months of weary travel, a beautiful sight appeared before their eyes: on a hill there stood a huge oak tree with a nest between its branches. From the nest a mighty white eagle soared into the sky. Lech was amazed by the view and considered it as a sign from the gods for him and his people. He decided to settle there and chose the white eagle with its wings spread wide against the sunset sky for their emblem. Soon they built a town which they called Gniezno (a “nest” in the Slavic language). The town became the capital of their nation and the first capital of Poland. And so the three brothers separated: Czech decided to go south and Rus chose the east where they started their own countries. History of Poland in brief In prehistoric and protohistoric times, over a period of at least 600,000 years, [2] [ bettersourceneeded] the area of present-day Poland was intermittently inhabited by members of the genus Homo. It went through the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age stages of development, along with the nearby regions. [3] The Neolithic period ushered in the Linear Pottery culture, whose founders migrated from the Danube River area beginning about 5500 BC. This culture was distinguished by the establishment of the first settled agricultural communities in modern Polish territory. Later, between about 4400 and 2000 BC, the native post- Mesolithic populations would also adopt and further develop the agricultural way of life. [4]

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