The books about Poland featured here mainly focus on the deportation experience of the Poles to Siberia in WW2, Polish history, the Polish Armed Forces, the Katyn Massacre, Polish memoirs together with some fiction and travel literature.
Links are provided to both Amazon and Bookfinder (new and used books) for those wishing to obtain a copy of the books. Some of the older books though can be difficult to obtain or find at a reasonable price. The year in the book details below is the most recent publication date of the book where known. The original publication date may be older. All of the
88 books listed on this page are books I either own or have read.
Deportations to Siberia and Kazakhstan
- Straws in the Wind
Eugene Krajewski
2013 North Charleston, SC: Createspace Independent Publishing ISBN 1492165719 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Long Bridge - Out of the Gulags
Urszula Muskus
2010 Dingwall, Scotland: Sandstone Press ISBN 9781905207558 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Crater's Edge: A Family's Epic Journey Through Wartime Russia
Micha Giedroyc
2010 London: Bene Factum Publishing ISBN 1903071240 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Ice Road - An Epic Journey From Stalinist Labour Camps To Freedom
Stefan Waydenfeld
2010 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica ISBN 1607720027 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- No Place to Call Home - The Memories of a Polish Survivor of the Soviet Gulag
Stanley J Kowalski and Alexandra Kowalski Everist
2009 Riverview Fla: JimSam ISBN 9780982058756 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
Wesley Adamczyk
2006 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226004449 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Stolen Childhood - A Saga of Polish War Children
Lucjan Krolikowski
2001 Buffalo, N.Y. : Father Justin Rosary Hour ISBN 9780969158806 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Polish Deportees in the Soviet Union - Origins of Post-War Settlement in Great Britain
Michael Hope
2000 London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre ISBN 0948202769 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Red Snow - A Young Pole's Epic Search for his Family in Stalinist Russia
Telesfor Sobierajski
1996 Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Books ISBN 0850525004 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Extermination: Killing Poles in Stalin's Empire
Anna and Norbert Kant
1991 London: Unicorn ISBN 1870886070 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Dark Side of the Moon
Zoe Zajdlerowa
1990 Hemel Hempstead, England: Harvester Wheatsheaf ISBN 0710813732 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Siberian Odyssey: The Song of the Cornucopia
Richard Lysakowski
1990 New York: Vantage Press ISBN 0533083869 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Fate of Poles in the USSR 1939-1989
Tomasz Piesakowski
1990 London: Gryf Publications ISBN 0901342246 Amazon | BookFinder
- Janek - A Story in Survival
Alick Dowling
1989 Dorking, England: Interpet Publishing ISBN 0948955457 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Diplomacy
- Conversations with the Kremlin and Dispatches from Russia
Stanislaw Kot
1963 Oxford University Press Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Espionage
- Codename Rygor: The Spy Behind the Allied Victory in North Africa
Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski
2010 London: Dialogue ISBN 190644708X Amazon | BookFinder
- A Secret Life - The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission and The Price He Paid To Save His Country
Benjamin Weiser
2005 New York, NY: PublicAffairs ISBN 1586483056 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Fiction
- Kozlowski
Jane Rogoyska
2019 Newbury, England: Holland House Books ISBN 1910688738 Amazon | BookFinder
- While Still We Live
Helen MacInnes
2013 London: Titan ISBN 1781161550 Amazon | BookFinder
History
- The Eagle Unbowed - Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Halik Kochanski
2013 London: Penguin Books ISBN 1846143586 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Warsaw 1920 - Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe
Adam Zamoyski
2008 London: HarperPress ISBN 0007225520 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Poles in Britain 1940-2000 - From Betrayal to Assimilation
Peter D Stachura
2004 London: Routledge ISBN 0714684449 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- To Kill A Priest - The Murder of Father Popieluszko and the Fall of Communism
Kevin Ruane
2004 London: Gibson Square ISBN 1903933544 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Lion and the Eagle - Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland
Diana M Henderson (Editor)
2001 Dunfermline, Scotland: Cualann Press ISBN 095350364X Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Poland in the Twentieth Century
Peter D Stachura
1999 London: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 033375266X Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Joseph Czapski
- Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History
Jozef Czapski
2022 New York, NY: New York Review of Books ISBN 1681374862 Amazon | BookFinder
- The Inhuman Land: A Wartime Journey Through The USSR
Joseph Czapski
2018 New York, NY: New York Review of Books ISBN 1681372568 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art And Life Of Józef Czapski
Eric Karpeles
2018 New York, NY: New York Review of Books ISBN 1681372843 Amazon | BookFinder
Katyn
- Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
Jane Rogoyska
2021 London: Oneworld Publications ISBN 1786078929 Amazon | BookFinder
- Katyn - A Crime Without Punishment
Edited by Anna Cienciala (USA), Natalia Lebedeva (Russian Federation) and Wojciech Materski (Poland)
2008 New Haven, CT: Yale University Press ISBN 9780300108514 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Children of the Katyn Massacre - Accounts of life after the 1940 Soviet Murder of Polish POWs
Teresa Kaczorowska
2006 Jefferson N.C: McFarland ISBN 9780786427567 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- In the Shadow of Katyn - Stalin's Terror
Stanislaw Swianiewicz
2002 Pender Island, B.C. : Borealis Pub ISBN 189425516X Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Death in the Forest - The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre
J. K. Zawodny
1971 London: Macmillan ISBN 0870525638 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Memoirs
- A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict, Deportation and Exile
Irena Protassewicz
2019 London: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 1350079928 Amazon | BookFinder
- Faraway Soldier’s Trail: Jan Domański World War II Memoirs
Jan Domański
2018 Independently Published ISBN 1791932827 Amazon | BookFinder
- 23 Days - A Memoir of 1939
Antoni Podolski
2014 Norwich, England: Yellow Wheel Publishing ISBN 9780992933104 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Andrew Borowiec
2014 London: Viking ISBN 0670922420 Amazon | BookFinder
- Quiet Hero - Secrets from My Father's Past
Rita Cosby
2010 New York: Threshold Editions ISBN 9781439165508 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Mermaid and the Messerschmitt
Rulka Langer
2009 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica Publishing ISBN 9781607720003 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Walking with Shadows
Josef Tarnowski
2009 Kirkcudbright, Scotland: Glen Murray Publishing ISBN 9780956175809 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands
Philip Marsden
2005 London: Harper Perennial ISBN 0007204523 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland
Radek Sikorski
1998 London: Phoenix ISBN 0753804646 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Mad Dreams, Saving Graces. Poland: A Nation in Conspiracy
Michael T. Kaufman
1989 New York: Random House ISBN 9780394554860 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Photography
- Portrait of Poland
Photographs by Bruno Barbey, Anthology complied by Jan Krok-Paszkowski, Preface by Czeslaw Milosz
1982 London: Thames and Hudson ISBN 0500540837 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Polish Armed Forces
- Trail of Hope - The Anders Army, An Odyssey Across Three Continents
Norman Davies
2015 Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing ISBN 147281603X Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Wojtek the Bear - Polish War Hero
Aileen Orr
2014 Edinburgh, Scotland: Birlinn ISBN 1843410656 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Freely I Served - 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
Stanislaw Sosabowski
2013 Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Military ISBN 9781783462612 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- 303 Squadron - The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron
Arkady Fielder
2010 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica Publishing ISBN 1607720043 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- First to Fight - Poland's Contribution to the Allied Victory in WWII
Edited by Dr Marek Stella-Sawicki, Jarek Garlinksi and Stefan Mucha
2009 UK: Polish Ex-Combatants' Association of Great Britain ISBN 9780955782442 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
2004 London: Arrow Books ISBN 9780099428121 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- An Army in Exile
Lt-General Wladyslaw Anders
2004 Nashville Tenn: Battery Press ISBN 0898390435 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Poles Apart - Polish Airborne at the Battle of Arnhem
George Cholewczynski
1993 New York: Sarpedon ISBN 0962761354 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Last of the War-Horses
General Klemens S Rudnicki
1974 London: Bachman & Turner ISBN 0859740137 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Polish Jews
- Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Glenn Kurtz
2014 New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374276775 Amazon | BookFinder
- In the Garden of Memory - A Family Memoir
Joanna Olczal-Ronikier
2005 Oxford, England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0297645498 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Polish Underground
- The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Jack Fairweather
2020 London: WH Allen ISBN 0753545187 Amazon | BookFinder
- My BoyHood War Warsaw 1944
Bohdan Hryniewicz
2015 Stroud, England: History Press ISBN 9780750962100 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Color of Courage
Julian Eugeniusz Kulski
2014 Los Angeles California: Aquila Polonica Publishing ISBN 1607720159 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Secret Army
Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski
2010 Barnsley, England: Frontline Books ISBN 1848325959 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- Fighting Warsaw - Story of the Polish Underground State 1939-45
Stefan Korbonski
2004 New York, NY: Hippocrene Books ISBN 0781810353 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- By Devil's Luck: A Tale of Resistance in Wartime Warsaw
Stanislaw Likiernik
2001 Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream ISBN 9781840183979 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- When the Summer Ended
Cecylia Wolkowinska and Joanna Bogle
1992 Leominster, England: Gracewing ISBN 0852442165 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
- The Survival of Love - Memoirs of a Resistance Officer
Jozef Garlinski
1991 London: Blackwell ISBN 0631176594 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Polish War Graves
- Polish War Graves in Scotland - A Testament to the Past
Robert Ostrycharz
1999 Glasgow: R. Ostrycharz ISBN 1872286488 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
Travel Literature
- Between East and West - Across the Borderlands of Europe
Anne Applebaum
2015 London: Penguin ISBN 0141979224 Amazon | BookFinder | Read more
:: Updated on 18 March 2023.