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Product Description: An evocative account of fourteen European kingdoms-their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance. There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Europe's past is littered with states and kingdoms, large and small, that are scarcely remembered today, and while their names may be unfamiliar-Aragon, Etruria, the Kingdom of the Two Burgundies-their stories should change our mental map of the past...read more
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9780670022731 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, January 5, 2012), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An evocative account of fourteen European kingdoms-their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance.

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Product Description: Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Poland regained its independence in 1918, and Komorowski fought against the Russians in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-21...read more
By Tadeusz Bor-komorowski, Norman Davies (introduced by) and Adam Komorowski (foreword by)
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9781848325951 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 19, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War.

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By Norman Davies (contributor)
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9781903071243 | Bene Factum Pub Ltd, May 1, 2010, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: One of the world’s leading historians re- examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing out lesser-known ones, No Simple Victory asks readers to reconsider what they know about the war, and how that knowledge might be biased or incorrect...read more
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9780143114093 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 26, 2008), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: One of the world’s leading historians re- examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing out lesser-known ones, No Simple Victory asks readers to reconsider what they know about the war, and how that knowledge might be biased or incorrect.

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9788408083856 | Planeta Pub Corp, June 30, 2008, cover price $32.09

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Product Description: The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes...read more
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9780192801265 | New sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2001), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Traces the history of Poland and examines the social and political life of the country.

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9781435295964 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness.

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The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, this title reminds us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler and Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR.
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9780333692851 | Pan Macmillan, April 30, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe?

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9780330352123, titled "Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory" | Ill edition (Pan Books Ltd, November 30, 2007), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known.

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A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.
By Norman Davies and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400134687 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $109.99 | About this edition: A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.

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A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.
By Norman Davies and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400154685 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.

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A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.
By Norman Davies and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400104680 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.

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A re-examination of World War II and its outcome by the eminent historian author of Europe: A History poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater reader understanding about popular beliefs.
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9780670018321 | Viking Pr, September 6, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A leading historian re-examines World War II and its outcome.

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Product Description: Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability...read more
By Wesley Adamczyk and Norman Davies (foreword by)
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9780226004433 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 19, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Soviet Union's brutal treatment of Polish citizens during World War II is told in the personal story of Wesley Adamcyzk, a Polish boy who lost his childhood innocence during the war, yet survived while maintaining dignity and courage.

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9780226004440 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability.

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A detailed account of the August 1944 battle for control of Warsaw describes how the Polish Resistance mobilized to expel the Germans and discusses the tragic consequences of Stalin's halting of the Russian offensive, a move that cost the lives of thousands of Polish citizens and the destruction of the city. Reprint.
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9780670032846 | Viking Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: An account of the August 1944 battle for Warsaw describes how the Polish Resistance mobilized to expel the Germans and discusses the consequences of Stalin's halting of the Russian offensive, a move that cost the lives of thousands of Polish citizens.

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9780143035404 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 27, 2005), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A detailed account of the August 1944 battle for control of Warsaw describes how the Polish Resistance mobilized to expel the Germans and discusses the tragic consequences of Stalin's halting of the Russian offensive, a move that cost the lives of thousands of Polish citizens and the destruction of the city.
9780330488631, titled "Rising `44: The Battle For Warsaw" | Macmillan Pub Ltd, August 31, 2004, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: "Rising '44" is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved.

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Product Description: The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context...read more
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9780231128179 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 30, 2005), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present.

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Product Description: The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context...read more
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9780231128193 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, February 28, 2005), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present.

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9788408053064 | Planeta Pub Corp, January 20, 2005, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in secret classes, and joined the Polish Home Army ? the secret resistance force...read more
By Norman Davies (introduced by) and Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon
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9780802039583 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 26, 2004, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939.

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Product Description: Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army — sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to "Water our horses on the Rhine" — was crushed by a devastating Polish attack...read more
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9780712606943 | Random House Uk Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history.

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By Norman Davies (foreword by) and Mark Zygadlo
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9780953541379 | Iynx Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195134421 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 2, 2000, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Portrays England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as they struggle with each other and against outside forces to build a nation

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9780195148312 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 1, 2001, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe.

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Amazon.com Review: With Europe: A History, University of London professor Norman Davies has undertaken the near impossible: a synthetic one-volume overview of Europe from prehistory through the present. Remarkably, he has succeeded. Europe: A History is a conventional narrative, proceeding forward in time at a gradually decelerating pace...read more
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9780195209129 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 5, 1996, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: A history of Europe from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age features hundreds of 'time capsules' that describe daily life at a particular time, along with panoramic descriptions of all of Europe at each period
9780198201717 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: A history of Europe from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age features hundreds of 'time capsules' that describe daily life at a particular time, along with panoramic descriptions of all of Europe at each period

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9780060974688 | Perennial, January 1, 1998, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780312062002 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1991, cover price $65.00

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9780901149237 | Hippocrene Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $14.95

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Traces the history of Poland from 1945 to 1982 and examines the social and political life of the country
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9780192851529 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1986), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of Poland from 1945 to 1982 and examines the social and political life of the country

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Points out Poland's importance to European history from medieval times to the present, examines the nation's multicultural heritage, and discusses the many problems Poland has had to face (view table of contents)
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9780231053501 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Points out Poland's importance to European history from medieval times to the present, examines the nation's multicultural heritage, and discusses the many problems Poland has had to face
9780231043267 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $307.50 | About this edition: Points out Poland's importance to European history from medieval times to the present, examines the nation's multicultural heritage, and discusses the many problems Poland has had to face
9780231053525 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Points out Poland's importance to European history from medieval times to the present, examines the nation's multicultural heritage, and discusses the many problems Poland has had to face

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9780231043274 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Points out Poland's importance to European history from medieval times to the present, examines the nation's multicultural heritage, and discusses the many problems Poland has had to face

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