Sponsored by:
The Kosciuszko Foundation

Central Connecticut State University
Central Connecticut State University

Polish National Credit Union

Polish National Alliance
Polish National Alliance

•Topor Dodge
•Partyka Resource Management
•Chicopee Medical Supplies
•Society of Polish American Culture of Western MA, Inc.
•PAT Tours/World Travel
•Aldenville Credit Union

Polish Bibliography

POLISH HISTORY
POLISH HISTORY 966-1795
POLISH HISTORY 1795-1939
POLISH HISTORY – WORLD WAR II
WORLD WAR II – POLISH PERSONAL NARRATIVES
POLISH HISTORY 1944-
POLISH CULTURE & TRADITIONS
GUIDEBOOKS
POLISH AMERICAN HISTORY
POLISH AMERICANS BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
POLISH AMERICANS IN FICTION
BIOGRAPHY


POLISH HISTORY

AUTHOR: Biskupski, Mieczyslaw B.
TITLE: The history of Poland
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, 2000

AUTHOR: Davies, Norman
TITLE: God's playground : a history of Poland
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press, 1982

AUTHOR: Davies, Norman
TITLE: Heart of Europe : a short history of Poland PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, 1986

AUTHOR: Lerski, Jerzy J
TITLE: Historical dictionary of Poland, 966-
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, 1996

AUTHOR: Lukowski, Jerzy
TITLE: A concise history of Poland
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, 2001

AUTHOR: Pogonowski, Iwo
TITLE: Poland, a historical atlas
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1987

AUTHOR: Pogonowski, Iwo
TITLE: Poland : an illustrated history
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c2000

AUTHOR: Wrobel, Piotr
TITLE: Historical dictionary of Poland : 1945-1996
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, 1998

AUTHOR: Zamoyski, Adam
TITLE: The Polish way : a thousand-year history of the Poles and their culture
PUBLISHER: F. Watts, 1988

back to top

POLISH HISTORY 966-1795

AUTHOR: Bogucka, Maria
TITLE: Baltic commerce and urban society, 1500-1700 : Gdansk/Danzig and its Polish context
PUBLISHER: Ashgate, 2003

AUTHOR: Jasienica, Pawel
TITLE: Piast Poland
PUBLISHER: American Institute of Polish Culture ; New York : Hippocrene Books, 1985

AUTHOR: Jasienica, Pawel
TITLE: Jagiellonian Poland
PUBLISHER: American Institute of Polish Culture, 1978

AUTHOR: Jasienica, Pawel
TITLE: Calamity of the realm
PUBLISHER: American Institute of Polish Culture, 1992

AUTHOR: Jasienica, Pawel
TITLE: A tale of agony
PUBLISHER: American Institute of Polish Culture, 1992

TITLE: The Jews in old Poland, 1000-1795 / edited by Antony Polonsky, Jakub Basista and Andrzej Link-Lenczowski.
PUBLISHER: Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, 1993.

AUTHOR: Lukowski, Jerzy
TITLE: The partitions of Poland : 1772, 1793, 1795
PUBLISHER: Longman, 1999

TITLE: Polish democratic thought from the Renaissance to the great emigration : essays and documents / edited by M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 1990

TITLE: The Polish-Lithuanian monarchy in European context c. 1500-1795 / edited by Richard Butterwick
PUBLISHER: Palgrave, 2001

TITLE: A Republic of nobles : studies in Polish history to 1864 / edited and translated by J.K. Fedorowicz
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, 1982

AUTHOR: Stone, Daniel
TITLE: The Polish-Lithuanian state, 1386-1795
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press, c2001

back to top

POLISH HISTORY 1795-1939

AUTHOR: Ascherson, Neal
TITLE: The struggles for Poland
PUBLISHER: Random House, 1988

AUTHOR: Blejwas, Stanislaus A.
TITLE: Realism in Polish politics : Warsaw positivism and national survival in nineteenth century Poland
PUBLISHER: Yale Concilium on International and Area Studies, 1984

AUTHOR: Jedrzejewicz, Waclaw
TITLE: Pilsudski, a life for Poland
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1982

AUTHOR: Wandycz, Piotr Stefan
TITLE: The lands of partitioned Poland, 1795-1918
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press, 1984, c1974

AUTHOR: Zaluski, Iwo
TITLE: Chopin's Poland
PUBLISHER: P. Owen, 1996

AUTHOR: Zamoyski, Adam
TITLE: The battle for the marchlands
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 1981

back to top

POLISH HISTORY – WORLD WAR II

AUTHOR: Cynk, Jerzy B.
TITLE: The Polish Air Force at war : the official history
PUBLISHER: Schiffer Pub., c1998

AUTHOR: Davies, Norman
TITLE: Rising '44 : "the battle for Warsaw"
PUBLISHER: Macmillan, 2003

AUTHOR: Garlinski, Jozef
TITLE: Poland in the Second World War
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, 1985.

AUTHOR: Gross, Jan Tomasz
TITLE: Revolution from abroad : the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorussia
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, c1988.

AUTHOR: Hempel, Andrew
TITLE: Poland in World War II : an illustrated military history
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c2000

AUTHOR: Jolluck, Katherine R.
TITLE: Exile and identity : Polish women in the Soviet Union during World War II
PUBLISHER: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

AUTHOR: Sword, Keith
TITLE: Deportation and exile : Poles in the Soviet Union, 1939-48
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, 1994

AUTHOR: Lukas, Richard C.
TITLE: The forgotten Holocaust : the Poles under German occupation,1939-1944
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kentucky, c1986

AUTHOR: Olson, Lynne
TITLE: A question of honor : the Kosciuszko Squadron: forgotten heroes of World War II
PUBLISHER: Knopf, 2003

AUTHOR: Peszke, Michael Alfred
TITLE: The Polish navy in the Second World War : a historical sketch
PUBLISHER: Polish Naval Association, 1989

AUTHOR: Peszke, Michael Alfred
TITLE: Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1944
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 1995

AUTHOR: Piotrowski, Thaddeus M.
TITLE: Poland's Holocaust : ethnic strife, collaboration with occupying forces and genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947
PUBLISHER: McFarland, c1998

AUTHOR: Wood, E. Thomas
TITLE: Karski : how one man tried to stop the holocaust
PUBLISHER: J. Wiley, c1994

back to top

WORLD WAR II – POLISH PERSONAL NARRATIVES

AUTHOR: Anders, Wladyslaw
TITLE: An Army in exile : The story of the Second Polish Corps
PUBLISHER: Battery Press, 1981

AUTHOR: Czapski, Jozef
TITLE: The inhuman land / Joseph Czapski
PUBLISHER: Polish Cultural Foundation, 1987

AUTHOR: Domoradzki, Stan
TITLE: The bridge over the Main : how a small Polish boy survived World War II in Germany
PUBLISHER: Olympia Press, 1999

AUTHOR: Krolikowski, Lucjan Zbigniew
TITLE: Stolen childhood : a saga of Polish war children
PUBLISHER: Franciscan Fathers Minor Conventuals, St. Anthony of Padua Province, c1983

AUTHOR: Klukowski, Zygmunt
TITLE: Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44 by
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press, c1993

AUTHOR: Mikosz-Hintzke, Teresa
TITLE: Six years 'til spring : a Polish family's odyssey
PUBLISHER: AUTHOR:s Choice Press, c2001

AUTHOR: Nel Siedlecki, Janusz
TITLE: We were in Auschwitz
PUBLISHER: Welcome Rain PUBLISHER:s, 2000

AUTHOR: Nitecki, Alicia
TITLE: Recovered land
PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press, c1995

AUTHOR: Nowak, Jan
TITLE: Courier from Warsaw
PUBLISHER: Wayne State University Press, 1982

AUTHOR: Piotrowski, Thaddeus M.
TITLE: Vengeance of the swallows : memoir of a Polish family's ordeal under Soviet aggression, Ukrainian ethnic cleansing and Nazi enslavement, and their emigration to America
PUBLISHER: McFarland, c1995

AUTHOR: Poltawska, Wanda
TITLE: And I am afraid of my dreams
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, 1989, c1987

AUTHOR: Pomykalski, Wanda E.
TITLE: The horror trains : a Polish woman veteran's memoir of World War II
PUBLISHER: Minerva Center, c1999

AUTHOR: Rowinska, Leokadia
TITLE: That the nightingale return : memoir of the Polish resistance, the Warsaw uprising, and German P.O.W. camps
PUBLISHER: McFarland, c1999

AUTHOR: Szonert-Binienda, Maria
TITLE: World War II through Polish eyes : in Nazi-Soviet grip
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 2002

TITLE: War through children's eyes : the Soviet occupation of Poland and the deportations, 1939-1941 / edited by I. Grudzinska-Gross, Jan Tomasz Gross
PUBLISHER: Hoover Institution Press, c1981

AUTHOR: Zamoyska-Panek, Christine
TITLE: Have you forgotten? : a memoir of Poland, 1939-1945
PUBLISHER: Doubleday, 1989

back to top

POLISH HISTORY 1944-

AUTHOR: Garton Ash, Timothy
TITLE: The Polish revolution : Solidarity
PUBLISHER: Scribner, 1984, c1983

AUTHOR: Karpinski, Jakub
TITLE: Poland since 1944 : a portrait of years
PUBLISHER: Westview Press, 1995

AUTHOR: Karpinski, Jakub
TITLE: Countdown, the Polish upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980
PUBLISHER: Karz PUBLISHER:s, 1982

AUTHOR: Weschler, Lawrence
TITLE: Solidarity, Poland in the season of its passion
PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster, c1982

back to top

POLISH CULTURE & TRADITIONS

TITLE: Art in Poland, 1572-1764 : land of the winged horsemen / Jan K. Ostrowski
PUBLISHER: Art Services International, 1999

AUTHOR: Benet, Sula
TITLE: Song, dance, and customs of peasant Poland
PUBLISHER: Polish Heritage Publications ; New York : Distributed by Hippocrene Books, 1996

AUTHOR: Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna
TITLE: Polish traditional folklore : the magic of time
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 1998

AUTHOR: Cavanaugh, Jan
TITLE: Out looking in : early modern Polish art, 1890-1918
PUBLISHER: University of California Press, c2000

AUTHOR: Cwika-Skrzyniarz, R.
TITLE: The great Polish walking dance : taniec wielki,taniec polski,Polonez,Polonaise
PUBLISHER: R. Cwieka, c1983

AUTHOR: Cwika-Skrzyniarz, R.
TITLE: The elegant Polish running-sliding dance
PUBLISHER: R. Cwieka, c1984

AUTHOR: Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz
TITLE: Polish customs, traditions, and folklore
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1993

AUTHOR: Krysa, Czeslaw Michal
TITLE: A Polish Christmas eve : traditions and recipes, decorations and song
PUBLISHER: CWB Press, c1998

AUTHOR: Lemnis, Maria
TITLE: Polish traditions in the kitchen and at the table
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, 1996

TITLE: Museums of Cracow
PUBLISHER: Newsweek, c1982

AUTHOR: Noyce, Richard
TITLE: Contemporary graphic art in Poland
PUBLISHER: Craftsman House, c1997

AUTHOR: Nowakowski, Jacek; Perrin, Marlene
TITLE: Polish touches : recipes and traditions : "Polish-American ways" revised and expanded PUBLISHER: Penfield Press, c1996

AUTHOR: Schauss, H. Joachim
TITLE: Contemporary Polish folk artists
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1987

AUTHOR: Strybel, Robert
TITLE: Christmas the Polish way = Boze Narodzenie po polsku
PUBLISHER: Straz PUBLISHER:s, c1987

AUTHOR: Wedel, Janine
TITLE: The private Poland
PUBLISHER: Facts on File Inc., c1986

AUTHOR: Zamojska-Hutchins, Danuta
TITLE: Cooking the Polish way
PUBLISHER: Lerner Publications Co., c1984
ISBN 0822509091

back to top

GUIDEBOOKS

AUTHOR: Dydynski, Krzysztof
TITLE: Poland
PUBLISHER: Lonely Planet, 1999

TITLE: Fodor’s Eastern and Central Europe : the guide for all budgets, where to stay, eat, and explore on and off the beaten path
PUBLISHER: Fodor’s Travel Publ., 2003

AUTHOR: Galazka, Jacek
TITLE: Polish heritage travel guide to U.S.A. & Canada
PUBLISHER: Polish Heritage Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed to the trade by Hippocrene Books, c1992

AUTHOR: Kagan, Joram
TITLE: Poland's Jewish landmarks : a travel guide PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c2001

AUTHOR: Tilbury, Jasper
TITLE: Poland
PUBLISHER: A & C Black, c2000

back to top

POLISH AMERICAN HISTORY

AUTHOR: Baker, T. Lindsay
TITLE: The Polish Texans
PUBLISHER: University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures, 1982

AUTHOR: Binkowski, Don
TITLE: Leo Krzycki and the Detroit left
PUBLISHER: Xlibris, c2001

AUTHOR: Binkowski, Don
TITLE: Poles together : Leo Krzycki and Polish Americans in the American labor movement
PUBLISHER: Xlibris Corp., c2001

AUTHOR: Buczek, Daniel S.
TITLE: Immigrant pastor : the life of the Right Reverend Monsignor Lucyan Bojnowski of New Britain, Connecticut
PUBLISHER: Heminway Corp., 1974

AUTHOR: Blejwas, Stanislaus A.
TITLE: St. Stanislaus B. & M. Parish, Meriden, Connecticut : a century of Connecticut Polonia, 1891-1991 PUBLISHER: Central Connecticut State University, c1991

AUTHOR: Buczek, Daniel S.
TITLE: Last of the Titans : Monsignor-Colonel Alphonse A. Skoniecki of Massachusetts
PUBLISHER: Society of Christ in America, 1986

AUTHOR: Buczek, Daniel S.
TITLE: People of God : a centennial history of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, New Britain, Connecticut
PUBLISHER: Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 1998

AUTHOR: Bukowczyk, John J.
TITLE: And my children did not know me : a history of the Polish-Americans
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press, c1987

AUTHOR: Chorzempa, Rosemary A.
TITLE: Polish roots = Korzenie polskie
PUBLISHER: Genealogical Pub., 1993

AUTHOR: Erdmans, Mary Patrice
TITLE: Opposite Poles : immigrants and ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press,c1998

AUTHOR: Kajencki, Francis C.
TITLE: Poles in the 19th century Southwest
PUBLISHER: Southwest Polonia Press, c1990

AUTHOR: Kula, Witold
TITLE: Writing home--immigrants in Brazil and the United States, 1890-1891
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 1986

AUTHOR: Majewski, Karen
TITLE: Traitors and true Poles : narrating a Polish-American identity, 1880-1939
PUBLISHER: Ohio University Press, 2003

AUTHOR: Pacyga, Dominic A.
TITLE: Polish immigrants and industrial Chicago : workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
PUBLISHER: Ohio State University Press, c1991

TITLE: Pastor of the Poles : Polish American essays : presented to John P. Wodarski in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination
PUBLISHER: Central Connecticut State College, 1982

AUTHOR: Pula, James S.
TITLE: Polish Americans : an ethnic community
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall International, c1995

AUTHOR: Silverman, Deborah Anders
TITLE: Polish-American folklore
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press, c2000

AUTHOR: Slominski, Lynda
AUTHOR: Blejwas, Stanislaus A.
TITLE: The Poles : in their homeland, in America, in Connecticut
PUBLISHER: University of Connecticut, 1979

AUTHOR: Tarapacki, Thomas M.
TITLE: Chasing the American dream : Polish Americans and sports
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1995

AUTHOR: Wojcik, Jan
TITLE: Z dziejow zolnierza-emigranta : historia "Haller Post" w New Britain
PUBLISHER: Placowka 111 SWAP, 1991

back to top

POLISH AMERICANS BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS

AUTHOR: Bak, Eugene
TITLE: Life's journey : autobiography
PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, 2002

AUTHOR: Lachocki, Eugene
TITLE: No return
PUBLISHER: Luthers, c1996

AUTHOR: Koprowska, Irena
TITLE: A woman wanders through life and science PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, c1997

AUTHOR: McMillan, Nadzieja Jadwiga
TITLE: I sing because I'm free
PUBLISHER: Brentwood Christian Press, c1994

AUTHOR: Sendzimir, Vanda
TITLE: Steel will : the biography of Tadeusz Sendzimir
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1993

AUTHOR: Shierant Gustaff, Leona
TITLE: Singing the tears : the immigrant journey
PUBLISHER: Albert J. Gustaff, c2003

AUTHOR: Swida, Nina
TITLE: As I remember
PUBLISHER: Artex Press, 1987

back to top

POLISH AMERICANS IN FICTION

AUTHOR: Bukoski, Anthony
TITLE: Children of strangers : stories
PUBLISHER: Southern Methodist University Press, 1993

AUTHOR: Bukoski, Anthony
TITLE: Polonaise : stories
PUBLISHER: Southern Methodist University Press, 1999

AUTHOR: Bukoski, Anthony
TITLE: Time between trains : stories
PUBLISHER: Southern Methodist University Press, 2003

AUTHOR: Chernoff, Maxine
TITLE: American heaven : a novel
PUBLISHER: Coffee House Press, c1996

AUTHOR: Pastor, Ben
TITLE: Lumen : a novel
PUBLISHER: Van Neste Books, 1999

AUTHOR: Petesch, Natalie L. M.
TITLE: The immigrant train and other stories
PUBLISHER: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c1996

AUTHOR: Pietrzyk, Leslie
TITLE: Pears on a willow tree
PUBLISHER: Bard, c1998

AUTHOR: Shea, Suzanne Strempek
TITLE: Hoopi, shoopi Donna
PUBLISHER: Washington Square Press, 1997, c1996

AUTHOR: Shea, Suzanne Strempek
TITLE: Selling the lite of heaven
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books, c1994

AUTHOR: Slezak, Ellen
TITLE: Last year's Jesus : a novella and nine stories
PUBLISHER: Theia, 2002

AUTHOR: Spencer, LaVyrle
TITLE: Then came heaven
PUBLISHER: Jove Books, 1999, c1997

AUTHOR: Williams, Chris
TITLE: Just for fun : memoirs of a driven performer PUBLISHER: Windy Row Press, c1989

AUTHOR: Wisniewski, Mark
TITLE: Confessions of a Polish used car salesman PUBLISHER: Hi Jinx Press, 1997

TITLE: Warsaw
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley Publ., c2003

AUTHOR: Zamoyski, Adam
TITLE: Poland : a travel gazetteer
PUBLISHER: Diane Publ., c2003

back to top

BIOGRAPHY

AUTHOR: Sokol, Stanley S.
TITLE: The Polish biographical dictionary : profiles of nearly 900 Poles who have made lasting contributions to world civilization
PUBLISHER: Bolchazy-Carducci PUBLISHER:s, c1992

AUTHOR: Tyburski, Zbigniew
TITLE: Polish champions : sketches in human dignity
PUBLISHER: Franciscan PUBLISHER:s, 1997

AUTHOR: Pula, James S.
TITLE: Thaddeus Kosciuszko : the purest son of liberty
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1999

AUTHOR: Szymanski, Leszek
TITLE: Casimir Pulaski : a hero of the American Revolution
PUBLISHER: Hippocrene Books, c1993.

AUTHOR: Quinn, Susan
TITLE: Marie Curie : a life
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, c1995.

AUTHOR: Szulc, Tad
TITLE: Pope John Paul II. : the biography
PUBLISHER: Scribner, c1995

AUTHOR: Walesa, Lech
TITLE: The struggle and the triumph : an autobiography
PUBLISHER: Arcade Pub., c1992

AUTHOR: Weiser, Benjamin
TITLE: A secret life : the Polish officer, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country
PUBLISHER: Public Affairs, c2004

back to top


Make Your Pledge | Polish Heritage Home | WGBY Home | feedback@wgby.org