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Poland 1945: War and Peace
1945. Wojna i pokój
Magdalena Grzebałkowska (born 1972)
Translated by John Markoff, Małgorzata Markoff
English editions
In EnglishPoland 1945: War and Peace
University of Pittsburgh Press · United States · 2020 · Hardcover
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The author travels to lands that for a moment belonged to no one or had just been seized by the new authorities, to hear the last living witnesses of that year. Half a million people tried to cross the frozen Vistula Lagoon in fear; resettled families found the former owners still in their new homes; children saved from the Holocaust lived in an orphanage in Otwock; looters treated the liberated territories as a giant shop. She gives voice to victims but also to perpetrators, showing how roles and fates blurred after the war.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 413 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland, 1945
- First published
- 2015 by Agora
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9788326822155 (original)
9780822945994 (University of Pittsburgh Press, United States)
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