Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped ou...
Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.
Rozalia Celakówna zmarła w opinii świętości 13 września 1944 roku, a Pan Bóg nieustannie potwierdza jej wybraństwo, rozdając za jej przyczyną wiele łask. Ciało Rozalii spoczywa na Cme...
Zawsze w cieniu. Zawsze potrzebni. Wreszcie docenieni. Kapelani Powstania Warszawskiego.Gdy kapituluje Starówka, żal za grzechy i rozgrzeszenie stają się cenniejsze niż życie. Ge...
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most ...
"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I w...
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is convent...
In answering the question, 'what is history?', E. H. Carr's acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are simply those which the historian selects for scrutiny. His fluen...
Zawsze w cieniu. Zawsze potrzebni. Wreszcie docenieni. Kapelani Powstania Warszawskiego.Gdy kapituluje Starówka, żal za grzechy i rozgrzeszenie stają się cenniejsze niż życie. Ge...
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless mill...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grote...
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannica...
A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar...a veritable tour de force Richard Overy, New Statesman Transnational history at its finest ...social, politi...
Lot nad kukułczym miastemTa książka to spacer dróżkami miasta-ogrodu. Jego bramy są otwarte dla każdego, kto staje do walki ze swoją psychiką.Sto lat temu otwarto szp...
One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideologic...
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'In this c...
Ksiądz Jan Kaczkowski to nie tylko Życie na pełnej petardzie, ale też setki kazań wygłoszonych w całej Polsce i poza jej granicami. Książka ta to wybór tych, które jego zdaniem najlep...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz K...