New York Review Books

Set in Warsaw, under Russian control, The Doll is a classic of Polish literature. It is a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century, and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. The embattl

In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles - men, women and children, starving, sickly and impoverished ? were released from Soviet prison camps, and allowed to join the Polish army being formed in the south o

Interned with thousands of Polish army officers and a handful of civilians in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, the artist Józef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre carried out in t

On August 1, 1944, Miron Bia oszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted