Once one of Europe’s largest kingdoms, Poland was wiped off the map by its neighbors — Russia, Prussia, and Austria — through ...

More than three decades after becoming the first Soviet satellite state to throw off the yoke of made-in-Moscow communism, Poland views itself as a rising military and economic force in Europe. Recent ...

Zbigniew Gluza, Rok 1939 Rozbiór Polski (Warsaw, 2009) Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (1945) Halik Kochanski, The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (UK, 2012) Robert M.

Picturing Poland, you might imagine a medieval square in Kraków or a steaming plate of pierogi dumplings. But this country of 38 million is layered, lively and anything but predictable. From Gothic ...