Archive for December 2024
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
(For college professors and students, parents, teachers, and adults). This well-researched work by British author and historian Clare Mulley presents the amazing story of Elzbieta Zawacka, a Polish World War II resistance fighter whose exploits are truly exceptional and helped restore Polish women to their rightful place in the historical record. Born in 1909, her…
Read MoreSelected Polish Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Polish artists and their paintings generally are not well-known but certainly should be.One reason for this is Poland’s disappearance from Europe’s map after having been divided up by Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1795. After 123 years, Poland was recreated in 1918 at the end of World War I. A second reason is the theft…
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