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Thanks to William Szych for Starting This Reading List. Most of the Books Below Can Be Found on Amazon Or Other Sites Where Thanks to William Szych for starting this reading list. Most of the books below can be found on Amazon or other sites where you can read reviews of the books (Google Search). Remember you can usually request your local library to get books for you through regional book-lending agreements. If you know of other books that you think should be added, let us know. This list includes some works of historical fiction. 1. 22 Britannia Road, a novel by Amanda Hodgkinson 2. 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron 3. A Death in the Forest (Poland’s Daughter: A Story of Love, War, and Exile) by Daniel Ford 4. A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True, by Brigid Pasulka 5. A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising, by Miron Bialoszewski 6. A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II. Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud 7. A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country, by Benjamin Weiser 8. A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II 9. An Army in Exile—the Story of the Second Polish Corps, by Lt. General W. Anders 10. Andrew Bienkowski: One life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others 11. Andrzej Pityński Sculpture. Anna Chudzik (Editor), Andrzej K. Olszewski, Irena Grzesiuk-Olszewska (Introduction) 12. As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me by Josef Bauer 13. Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture by Danusha Goska 14. Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918-1939 by Richard M. Watt 15. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder 16. Books by NORMAN DAVIES: Europe at War 1939-1945 Europe: A History; Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw; White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20; God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Volume I & 17. Building the Barricade and Other Poems by Anna Swir 18. By Parachute to Warsaw, by Marek Celt 19. Children of Terror by Inge Auerbacher and Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride 20. Children of the Gulag 21. Children of the Katyń Massacre: Accounts of Life After the 1940 Soviet Murder of Polish POWs [Abridged]. Teresa Kaczorowska 22. Code Name: Żegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942-1945: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Wartime Europe. Irene Tomaszewski, Tecia Werbowski 23. Combat: Good and Evil in World War II, by Michael Burleigh 24. Come With Me and Visit Hell (Kindle Edition). Stanisław Jaskolski (Author) and Jim Przedzienkowski (Translator) 25. Common Boundary 26. Courier from Warsaw, by Jan Nowak 27. Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyń Forest Massacre, by Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny 28. Destroy Warsaw! Hitler's Punishment, Stalin's Revenge by Andrew Borowiec 29. DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 and Round-Trip to America, both by Mark Wyman 30. Dragon In My Pocket, by Denise Coughlin. Bill Kastan (Illustrator) 31. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Paul Kengor 32. Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code (Polish Histories). Władysław Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak 33. Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier 34. Escaping Danger by Dorothy Dubel 35. Et Papa tacet: the genocide of Polish Catholics: An article from: Commonweal [HTML Digital] 36. Exile and Identity, by Katherine Jolluck 37. Exiled to Siberia, by Klaus Hergt 38. Exiled to Siberia: A Polish Childs WWII Journey, by Tadeusz Piotrowski 39. Faithful Russian by G. Vladimov 40. Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State 1939-1945 by Stefan Korboński 41. Finding Poland, by Matthew Kelly 42. First to Fight: Poland’s Contribution to the Allied Victory in WWII 43. Footsteps in the Snow—a true story of one family’s journey out of Siberia, written by Roma King (Michniewicz) 44. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944. Richard C. Lukas. Forward by Norman Davies 45. Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation. Richard C. Lukas, Ed. 46. Forsaken Journeys: the “Polish” experience and identity of the “Pahiatua children” in New Zealand by Theresa Sawicka-Brockie (PhD thesis, University of Auckland, 1987) 47. From an Oak Tree by Frank J. Jasinski 48. From the Steppes to the Savannah , by Barbara Porajska 49. Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II, by Tadeusz Piotrowski 50. Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold: Studies on the Fate of Wartime Poles and Jews, Edited by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Wojciech Jerzy Muszynski, and Pawel Styrna, 2012 51. Gulag Boss by Fyodor Mochulsky 52. Gulag Voices, edited by Anne Applebaum 53. Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 54. Have you forgotten?, by Christine Zamoyska-Panek 55. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology and, Atrocity” by Alexander B. Rossino 56. Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, by Andrew Nagorski 57. Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945, by M.B.B. Biskupski 58. Holocaust Forgotten – Five Million Non-Jewish Victims, by Terese Pencak Schwartz 59. I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American ambassador reports to the American people (The Americanist library) by Arthur Bliss Lane 60. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (9780553494112) by Irene Opdyke 61. Inferno of Choices: Poles and the Holocause, edited by Sebastian Rejak and Elzbieta Frister 62. Inside a Gestapo Prison: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942-1944. Translated and edited by Irene Tomaszewski (note: Wituska was executed by the Gestapo in her early twenties) 63. Irena Sendler: Mother of the Children of the Holocaust by Anna Mieszkowska 64. Journey from Innocence (East European Monographs), by Anna R. Dadlez 65. Journey Into the Whirlwind by E. 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