Polish English

A timeless European classic. 7 million copies in 7 languages. Three generations of fans. And now finally in English! Who are you, really? A beautiful tale of extraordinary people in an extraordinary land. In 1726, a Polish-Virginian in trouble with the law took to the sea and was stranded on an uninhabited Caribbean island. His only desire was to survive and find a way back to his civilization. But fate had other plans: he would meet a tribe of Native Americans and they would adopt him. The Polish Virginian would become someone new and different, someone he had no idea he could be: John ...

Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake.

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Had some experience in Polish? Up the challenge with Beginner Polish. Master the basics of Polish conversation! Start speaking Polish in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner Polish. Our native Polish hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way!

On 23 August 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty with a secret protocol that delineated their respective spheres of influence over the territory between them. On 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany launched WWII by invading Poland from the West. On 17 September the Soviet Union invaded from the East. Over 200,000 Polish soldiers were captured by the Red Army. About 15,000 military officers, policemen, and border guards were segregated and interned in three camps: Starobelsk, Kozelsk, and Ostashkov. On 5 March 1940 NKVD Chief Beria provided Stalin with a proposal ...

Michael Hogan, as a poet and educator, has been gifted with friendships of fellow writers throughout most of his life. Three of these were Nobel laureates, still others household names: Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihad Nye and Ray Bradbury, among a dozen others . What is surprising is what he manages to do with such experiences in this book. Through a series of narrations centered on wide-ranging episodes with other poets, the author distills a unique kind of ars poetica, one that is tied less to a traditional memoir, than to the impression these men ...

Reaching back to the Gilded Age, when that legacy first began to come undone, Alexandra has written an unflinching, mordantly funny account of neglect and class anxiety amid the ruins of a once prominent family. More than an insider's look at a decaying American institution, The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh.

Now, with selected Old Country recipes for traditional Polish Christmas dishes from Polish American author, Robert Strybel. Look Inside the Table of Contents to make your mouth water and your heart warm with memories with over 100 recipes for time-honored holiday specialties such as Honey-Spice Hearts (Serduszka piernikowe), Roast Stuffed Chicken Polonaise (Kurczę pieczone po Polsku) and Home-Made Cherry Cordial (Domowa wiśniówka).

Did you know that learning the 1,000 most frequently used words will familiarize you with 87.8 percent of all vocabulary used in every day conversation? That is almost 88 percent of all conversations that you’ll have. If you can master the pronunciation of these frequently used words, then you will sound like a native speaker in no time! Instead of concentrating on the countless rules (and exceptions to those rules) of the English language, you will be focusing on the essentials that will get you up to speed and speaking in a polished manner - and having fun while doing it.

A lifetime of plans and dreams are packed into a container and shipped from Los Angeles to a Caribbean island; but for a writer and immigrant from post-WWII Europe, the past is hard to forget and even harder to leave behind. Passage From England is the emotional journey of a man's search for home that interweaves the adventures and tragedies of his childhood in America's 50s and 60s with the experiences of early retirement in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The journey begins in 1956, crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, arriving in New York Harbor, then traveling by train to the paper-thin ...

Hannah and Rachel are two young Jewish girls growing up during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Fearing for their lives, they promise to find each other after the war if they both survive. Can their love and friendship endure through the horrors of the war and the Jewish holocaust? Will they meet again?

Perhaps you have a family member from Poland or Polish friends you'd like to converse with. Maybe you've tried online apps and found them burdensome, one-size-fits-all, or just too fast or slow to enjoy.

Start speaking Polish in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Polish, a completely new way to travel with confidence! Survival Phrases - Polish will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your friends travel companions and people you meet along the way.

On Christmas Eve, the Hardy Family are once again in a predicament on their horse farm. Someone or something has been stealing from them in the night. Was it human, or was it a ghostly presence who took all the coal? Or could it be Father Christmas, also known Santa Claus, Saint Nick, or Sinterclaas? And what was that giant beast that the farm workers saw galloping past? In a story that glances at Christmas myths from different countries, most of them scary, Sergeant Frank Hardy and his friend Hop Li search in the darkness to find out what's going on. Meanwhile, Mette gets to know Grace, ...

A complete guide to observing and celebrating the traditional Polish Easter Cycle from pre-Lenten Mardi Gras masquerade festivities and pre-Easter Święconka through Easter Sunday family breakfasts, Easter Monday, Dyngus Day and more.

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive pause-resister about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets - book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely 34-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned.

In the winter of 1996, more than 100 women and men of diverse nationality, background, and belief gather at the site of a former concentration camp for an unprecedented purpose: a weeklong retreat during which they will offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform, while eating and sleeping in the quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths.

A top “must-have” for any listener of Holocaust and World War II survival accounts. This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish Catholic swimmer, survives Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

The ‘Polish Jazz’ series consists of 76 LP’s released by Poland’s state-controlled Polskie Nagrania Muza label between the years 1965 and 1989. 76 Records assesses each album and provides a list of 21 of the very best. The series was reactivated in 2016 and Muza, now owned by Warner Brothers, has added further volumes which are considered in the ‘Postludium’. Polish Jazz is a remarkably diverse collection of jazz-related musics, ranging from New Orleans revivalism to fairly approachable free jazz. As well as providing an account of the music itself, 76 Records looks briefly at ...

In war torn Germany of 1942, only the most fortunate will evade persecution—and only the fiercest can overthrow a craven regime. Enter Marta Koblinksi, a devoted member of the Polish Underground who will stop at nothing to expose the atrocities of the Third Reich. But will those nearest to her end up exposing her actions—and ensuring her death? The spellbinding, highly anticipated sequel to "Life in Hitler’s Crosshairs" by Constance Krail-Self, "The Road To Hell" charts Marta’s death-defying odyssey from the unimaginable torment of the camps to the lavish glitter of Berlin in the ...