God's Playground: A History of Poland (2 Volume Set) [Paperback]

Professor Norman Davies (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1982

Two-volume set of the most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English. Davies stresses the country's rich multinational heritage.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1330 pages
• Publisher: Columbia University Press (October 15, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231043279
• ISBN-13: 978-0231043274
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Norman Davies C. M. G., F. B. A. is Professor Emeritus of the University of London, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of several books on Polish and European history, including God's Playground, White Eagle, Red Star, The Isles, Europe, and Microcosm.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Truth from a distant land, November 8, 2003

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Piotr Konieczny "Prokonsul Piotrus" (Katowice, Poland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God's Playground: A History of Poland (2 Volume Set) (Paperback)

As Norman Davies himself writes in the preface, writing about history of another country is not an easy task. However, he seems to have done a great job, especially when one considers the amount of bibliography material available only in Polish.

Being Polish myself, and an amateur historian, I have read many books about Polish history - but this is the first one I read in English. I am very pleasantly suprised, and would rank it among the top in its category.

The fact that the writer is not Polish, nor of any country whose history and present have been recently shaped by it is not a handicap, on the contrary, it guarantees that the book is unbiased.

Final verdict: a very good book