See. Europeans can be educated.

Dobre dzien! Nice touch, a Polish title. Yes, indeed the Poles are a great and strong people, and great allies of the United States. I first began getting interested in Poland several years ago after reading Leo Frankowski's "Conrad Stargard" (Connecticut Yankee redux) novels. Almost simultaneously, I started learning the language in preparation for a church mission trip, which I didn't end up getting to go on. Point is, Polish is one hard language to learn for an English speaker! But I digress. Good post, thanks.

Steve Bragg
DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS--WORLDVIEWS Behind The NEWS

There's a really great book out now, by Norman Davies--who's written several excellent books about Poland. It's called "Rising '44" and concerns itself with the betrayals and misunderstandings (mostly betrayals) that preceded the Warsaw Uprising of '44 (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Rising, of '43). This was the one where the Soviets sat across the river and refused to help the Poles.

Davies is unusually angry in his writing, and he does some strange stuff (like identify individuals throughout the text with their forenames and an initial, e.g., Stanislaw K.). In an index, he does give a key to match up against the names. He also avoids Polish spellings, instead using a transliteration system. Uncomfortable reading, if you know anything at all about Poland/Polish, but still a superb history based in part on documents out of the Soviet archives. Amazon's got it.