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• Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920–1939

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  Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920–1939

  AITitle translated by AI:“Gdynia Promised: City, Modernism, Modernisation 1920–1939”

  Grzegorz Piątek · 42 when first published

  Nonfiction · 431 pages · Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:The story of Gdynia, the port city built from scratch in interwar Poland, where the young state hoped to leave its divisions, backwardness and poverty behind and leap into the twentieth century.

• Najlepsze miasto świata. Warszawa w odbudowie 1944–1949

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  Najlepsze miasto świata. Warszawa w odbudowie 1944–1949

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Best City in the World: Warsaw in Reconstruction, 1944–1949”

  Grzegorz Piątek · 40 when first published

  Nonfiction · 530 pages · Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:After the defeat of the 1944 uprising, Warsaw is a sea of rubble. The book follows the architects of the Capital Reconstruction Office, who set out to build an ideal modern city on the ruins.