Polish World War

A mesmerizing historical audiobook of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents...

One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her familys imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched." Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers...

This program features a bonus conversation between the author and narrators. From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother’s...

Experience an immersive European history journey where a vibrant capital is shattered by war and rebuilt from the ashes. Perfect for a reflective commute or a deep-focus learning session, this evocative narrative paints a mental gallery of survival and architectural rebirth. Rather than dry...

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha’s mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor’s mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen. Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the mirror for company.

Discover a breathtaking tale of urban resilience in this gripping European history of a city destroyed and reborn. From a modest Vistula riverside settlement to a cultural powerhouse, witness a metropolis forged by unyielding human endurance. Perfect for your morning commute, this immersive...

Experience the gripping European history of a resilient medieval capital that survived centuries of war and occupation. Whether you are prepping for a vacation or escaping into the past during your daily commute, this evocative narrative transports you to the cobblestone streets of Eastern...

Experience a gripping saga of European history and cultural resilience as a vanished nation defies empires to survive. Perfect for your daily commute, this dramatic non-fiction narrative transforms over a thousand years of political upheaval into an inspiring fight for existence. Delve into a...

Uncover the gripping World War II mystery of a lost treasure train hidden deep within the subterranean tunnels of Poland. Perfect for a long commute or a deep-focus listening session, this atmospheric historical investigation separates wartime fact from decades of tantalizing rumors. From the...

No longer war, but not yet peace. A fascinating journey through 12 months of fear, hope, euphoria, and disappointment. A journalistic story about the most dramatic year of the 20th century. Grzebałkowska examines the fate of the last living witnesses of that time. She gives voices to the victims, but also the oppressors, especially when she can use them to show the post-war blending of roles and fates. 1945: War and Peace won the 2016 Nike Literary Audience Award.

Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country. As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to reclaim lands incorporated into the new state of Poland at Versailles.

The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi...

„Świetnie napisane. Dowiedziałem się więcej o człowieku, który uratował mojego Ojca" – Andrzej Szpilman.

MIŁOŚĆ I NADZIEJA SĄ POTĘŻNIEJSZE NIŻ NIENAWIŚĆ I GNIEW. Gdy Jurij Santacruz przyglądał się paradzie z okazji mianowania Adolfa Hitlera na kanclerza Niemiec, nie mógł przypuszczać, jak bardzo ten dzień odmieni jego życie. Do Berlina przyjechał kilka miesięcy wcześniej, po tym, jak z częścią rodziny uciekł z Sankt Petersburga przed skutkami bolszewickiej rewolucji, która pozbawiła ich wszystkiego. Jurija pozbawiła także matki i młodszego brata – rosyjskie władze nie zezwoliły im na opuszczenie kraju.

Rok 1942, na świecie toczy się krwawa wojna. W Indiach, w okolicy wsi Balachadi, pojawiają się białe dzieci budzące zdumienie tym, że najchętniej biegają na bosaka, czego nigdy nie zrobiłby żaden mały Anglik. Wygłodzone i w łachmanach docierały do formującej się na terenie Sowietów Armii Andersa i dzięki temu po opuszczeniu przez polską armię ZSRS znalazły się w końcu w Indiach. Maharadża Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhji zaprosił młodych uchodźców, by zamieszkali w wybudowanym specjalnie dla nich osiedlu. Mieli odtąd dach nad głową, zapewnione wyżywienie, ubranie, naukę i opiekę lekarską.

"Wybuch wojny światowej" to klasyczny szkic historyczny, prezentujący nieznane kulisy wybuchu I wojny światowej. Publikacja ta ukazała się po raz pierwszy w druku zaledwie kilka lat przed atakiem Hitlera i Stalina na Polskę. Autor we wstępie swojej pracy podkreślał ryzyko wybuchu kolejnego konfliktu, który obejmie cały świat. Niestety jego obawy wkrótce się potwierdziły.