Summary
An expansive, insightful and moving history of the Polish experience during World War Two, and its lasting legacyFollowing the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly’s great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey stretching from Siberia to Pakistan, and beyond. Their male relatives endured a parallel journey; arrested, exiled, and held as p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099515999 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099515997 |
| Author: | Matthew Kelly |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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Both as a work of history and as an upmarket version of Who Do You Think You Are? this book is a great success
Both as a work of history and as an upmarket version of Who Do You Think You Are? this book is a great success – Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday Times *A fascinating blend of biography and history, which poignantly evokes the pain and loss attendant on exile, in both wartime and peace. – Ian Thomson * Daily Telegraph *In Finding Poland, about his grandmother’s deportation from Poland, he has a cracking story which he tells with compassion, verve, and the professional historian’s restraint and accuracy – Bridget Hourican * Irish Times *Moving book…Scholarly without being oppressive, Kelly’s book reminds us how millions of people in the last century were uprooted by war and ideology, their expectations blown to the winds, their horizons utterly altered. – Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly was born in Devon, educated at Oxford and now teaches at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Finding Poland which was published by Jonathan Cape in 2010 and The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 1882-1916.
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