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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Norman Davies |
ISBN: | 0199253390 9780199253395 0199253404 9780199253401 |
OCLC Number: | 58832211 |
Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | v. 1. The origins to 1795 -- v. 2. 1795 to the present. |
Responsibility: | Norman Davies. |
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Review from previous edition Anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Poland must dig into Norman Davies's great opencast mine of Polish History...it is very accessible, strewn with vivid quotations from original sources, good anecdotes, and much verse... * Sunday Times * The magnificence of God's Playground is that Norman Davies has given ust the music as well as the libretto, the passion, poetry, myth, and ancedote as well as the facts...Davies writes with spirit, and his enjoyment is infectious. * Observer * A yawning gap in Anglophone historical literature has now been filled...Dr Davies writes interestingly and well. His moods vary between cool detachment, passionate involvement, and ironic comment. His range of sources is wide and imaginative...a very substantial achievement. * Times Literary Supplement * Read more...

