91 Books about Poland in the English Language

Books about Poland on a bookshelf

Polish War Graves in Britain

The 91 books about Poland featured in this bibliography 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 91 books listed on this page are books I either own or have read.

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Deportations to Siberia and Kazakhstan

  • The Whistler
    Marilyn Gwizdak Greenwood
    2018 United Kingdom: Independently Published ISBN 1976914884 Amazon | BookFinder
  • 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 about the book »
  • 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 about the book »
  • 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 about the book »
  • 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 about the book »
  • The Fate of Poles in the USSR 1939-1989
    Tomasz Piesakowski
    1990 London: Gryf Publications ISBN 0901342246 Amazon | BookFinder

Diplomacy

Espionage

  • 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 about the book »

Fiction

  • While Still We Live
    Helen MacInnes
    2013 London: Titan ISBN 1781161550 Amazon | BookFinder

History

  • 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 about the book »
  • The Struggles for Poland
    Neal Ascherson
    1987 London: Michael Joseph ISBN 0718128125 Amazon | BookFinder

Joseph Czapski

  • 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 about the book »
  • 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 about the book »

Memoirs

  • Eye on Solidarity : Reporting a turning point in Poland - and finding my roots
    Sonya Zalubowski
    2023 New York NY: Associated Press ISBN 9780917360008 Amazon | BookFinder | Read about the book »
  • 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
  • Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
    Andrew Borowiec
    2014 London: Viking ISBN 0670922420 Amazon | BookFinder

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 about the book »

Polish Armed Forces

  • Freely I Served - 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
    Stanislaw Sosabowski
    2013 Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Military ISBN 9781783462612 Amazon | BookFinder | Read about the book »
  • 303 Squadron - The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron
    Arkady Fielder
    2010 Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica Publishing ISBN 1607720043 Amazon | BookFinder | Read about the book »
  • 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 about the book »
  • 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 about the book »

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

Polish Underground

Polish War Graves

Travel Literature