Polish War

During the late 1930s the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler reached a secret alliance, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. By the terms of this agreement, the two dictators divided up Eastern Europe between them, and for a time Stalin even sought Axis membership. Though the alliance forged between the fascist and communist states could not survive their diametrically opposed views, they cooperated long enough to conquer Poland together in 1939.

Rok 1670. Szlachcic i najemnik Michał Hieronim Dantyszek zaczyna żałować, że kiedykolwiek dla Rzeczypospolitej walczył i zabijał… Bohater zostaje najemnikiem, walczy we Francji oraz w angielskiej wojnie domowej. Za granicą poznaje trzy osoby, z którymi bez reszty złączy się jego żywot: siedzącego w więzieniu pod zarzutem szpiegostwa Jana Kazimierza Wazę, arystokratkę Marię Ludwikę Gonzagę i polskiego magnata Jerzego Sebastiana Lubomirskiego.

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive pause-resister about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets - book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely 34-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned.

September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.

Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake.

Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent, and the Caribbean region. However, early America witnessed the development of New York by the Dutch, the southernmost regions by Spain, and what would become eastern Canada by the French after lengthy battles with Britain.

After a brief revival following World War I, during which it successfully defeated a Soviet attempt to invade in an effort to carry "international revolution" into Germany and Central Europe, Poland once again fell victim to its neighbors in 1939. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and Josef Stalin's USSR collaborated in the conquest and then split Poland between them. The Germans instituted oppressive rule in their portion of Poland, executing some 7,000 people on political grounds and imprisoning thousands of others.

In 1943 Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details life in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion.

No longer war, but not yet peace. A fascinating journey through 12 months of fear, hope, euphoria, and disappointment. A journalistic story about the most dramatic year of the 20th century. Grzebałkowska examines the fate of the last living witnesses of that time. She gives voices to the victims, but also the oppressors, especially when she can use them to show the post-war blending of roles and fates. 1945: War and Peace won the 2016 Nike Literary Audience Award.

Dwa lata po inwazji na Świecie Haydena siły partyzantki i nieprzyjaciela znalazły się w impasie, ale żadna ze stron nie zamierza tak pozostawić stanu rzeczy. Sojusz obcych rzuca do walki kolejne siły, a Flota Solarna wprowadza do walki Task Force 5, grupę bojową składającą się z najnowocześniejszych okrętów skonstruowanych kiedykolwiek przez człowieka. Ostatecznie pewne rzeczy rozstrzygną się na niebie, ale o innych można zadecydować tylko na ziemi.

Wojna o Świat Haydena dobiega zaskakującego końca. Świeżo upieczona porucznik Sorilla Aida ma nowych sojuszników, nowy sprzęt i wsparcie, i oczywiście nowe zadanie. Jej misja może zagwarantować ludzkości szansę na zdobycie przewagi technologicznej w konflikcie z obcymi. Sojusz jednak nie czeka, aż wojna wymknie się mu spod kontroli, i w odpowiedzi podejmuje błyskawiczną kontrakcję. Czy obcych naprawdę interesują ludzie i ludzkie światy, czy może jednak gra toczy się o coś więcej?

Trwa wojna ludzi z Sojuszem obcych. Sorilla i jej zespół podejmują się niezwykle trudnej misji uwolnienia zakładników przetrzymywanych na jednej z wrogich planet. Pomimo że odbudowano orbitalne łącze na Świecie Haydena, w dżungli nadal grasują Strażnicy, prowadząc partyzancką walkę z oddziałami ludzi. Tymczasem w przestrzeni kosmicznej pojawia się nowy gracz, który zachwieje układem sił – ale Ziemianie też mają w zanadrzu niejedną niespodziankę. Jak zakończy się starcie w kosmosie? Czy Świat Haydena będzie znowu wolną planetą?

The world that no longer exists. Forbidden love sucked into the vortex of history. The fates of three nations over the course of five decades. Unknown, drastic crime. Poland hasn't seen a novel like this in years! It's written with vigor and full of emotions. The romance of Mateusz and Marita is a story unlike any other: complex, full of difficult choices, fleeting hopes, suffering, but above all - true to the historic facts.

Wojna o Haydena się skończyła. SOLCOM i Sojusz rozpoczynają rozmowy pokojowe, ale żadna ze stron nie ma pojęcia, jak rozstrzygnęła się ostateczna bitwa w wojnie o Haydena. Dyplomatyczne niuanse nie są specjalnością major Sorilli Aidy, która dostaje zadanie: znaleźć jakąś słabość przeciwnika, dać ludziom czas, by dowiedzieli się, co się stało z Walkirią i jednocześnie mogli się upewnić, że Sojusz nie zaryzykuje kolejnego otwartego konfliktu.

Berlin, 1948: World War II may be over, but a new era of conflict has begun. The Russians have cut off all access to the western part of Berlin in an attempt to seize it from the Allies. The thirst for power, dominance, and revenge is as strong as ever, and anti-Semitism is still rampant. When a store in West Berlin is vandalized with Swastikas, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the US Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate, and meets Max and Karl Portnoy, two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

The secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable—and until now, completely unknown—humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they...

At the time of the Revolutionary War, nations such as France undoubtedly had an elevating effect on America’s capacity to make formal war, and Lafayette is the most famous foreigner to serve in the Continental Army, but some of the most important individuals who fought for the colonists came from Poland. One of the most important individuals who arrived at George Washington’s door was Polish aristocrat Kazimierz Michal Wladyslaw Wiktor Pulaski, known to future generations as the “Father of the American Cavalry”, while Tadeusz Kosciuszko perceived the American conflict as the test of a new universal paradigm.

On July 15, 1410, Tannenberg was the site of another decisive battle between the army of the Germanic Teutonic Order and that of Poland-Lithuania, a battle now commonly referred to as the Battle of Grunwald (after a nearby village). German nationalism saw the destruction of the Russians as vengeance upon the Slavs for the defeat of 1410, and the Nazis also exploited that sentiment during their invasions of Poland and Russia.

When Hitler invades Poland in 1939, newlyweds Józef and Marysia Buko are catapulted into a sudden and heart-wrenching seven-year separation. Józef honors the soldier’s code and is forced to fight battles in many foreign lands. Marysia remains in Warsaw to join in the underground resistance against Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Each faces life-threatening situations demanding courage, faith, and resilience if the couple is ever to see each other again.

The Dominion has been defeated, but at a terrible cost. The Victorian Fleet is battered and in need of repair. But while the Dominion has been defeated, the Tilleke now prepare to invade the Victorian Sector. The Tilleke have sat on the sidelines, watching as the Dominion and Victoria pummeled one another. Now the Tilleke’s fleet is larger and stronger than the Victorian’s, and the waiting is over. But before the main attack, the Tilleke will probe with spies and assassins.