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Free Download Ewa Mazierska, "Polish Popular Music on Screen"
English | ISBN: 3030427781 | 2020 | 333 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines the interface between Polish popular music and screen media against the background of Polish history, cinema, and popular culture and situates that interface in a local as well as global context. It looks at Polish musicals, biographical films about musicians, documentary films and, finally, music videos. The author draws attention to the immense popularity of musical comedies in Polish interwar cinema, the enduring appeal of musical genres during the period of state socialism, despite their low status in film criticism, and the re-birth of musicals in the 2010s. Mazierska also discusses the most important stars, directors and authors of songs presented in Polish films, and points to the effect of technological changes on inception and transformation of music-centred genres of screen media, including the effect of YouTube on their growth and preservation. The book is informed by the question of how parochial and universal is Polish popular music and its screen representation.

Free Download Nina Juzwa, "Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation "
English | ISBN: 1032517727 | 2023 | 214 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 22 MB
Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan. Its main focus is public utility buildings which the authors "have touched" in situ and which have moved them or sparked their interest. The book is divided into three parts:

Free Download Charles River Editors, Jim Walsh (Narrator), "Grunwald and Orsha: The History and Legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Most Decisive Battles"
English | ISBN: 9798868759581 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~02:55:00 | 89 MB
Like other secretive groups, the mystery surrounding the Teutonic Knights has helped their legacy endure. While some conspiracy theorists attempt to tie the group to other alleged secret societies like the Illuminati, other groups have tried to assert connections with the Teutonic Knights to bolster their own credentials. Who they were and what they had in their possession continue to be a source of great intrigue even among non-historical circles.
While the military orders are now often tied to religion or conspiracy theories, they did once wield great power and influence in Europe, and their actions had consequences centuries after they had reached their peak. This was made clear in the wake of a major battle fought between German and Russian forces from August 26-30, 1914 during the First World War. It occurred in Masuria, a region of marshes, woodland, and numerous lakes in northern Poland, almost 400,000 men were involved, and it was a decisive victory for the Germans, who annihilated the Russian army. The Germans named the battle after Tannenberg (Polish Stebark), and the battle, though widely fought over 100 miles, did indeed encompass the village, but there was a historical reason for assigning the name to the battle. On July 15, 1410, Tannenberg was the site of another decisive battle between the army of the Germanic Teutonic Order and that of Poland-Lithuania, a battle now commonly referred to as the Battle of Grunwald (after another nearby village).
In 1514, Orsha was a much smaller town, home to a population of no more than 5,000 as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but on September 8 of that year, the normally quiet and unpretentious town was thrust into the world’s gaze when over 100,000 troops engaged in one of the 16th century’s biggest battles outside the town walls. The battle pitted the forces of the King of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Free Download Leszek Koczanowicz, "Interpreting Globalization Polish Perspectives on Culture in the Globalized World "
English | ISBN: 9004443789 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 11 MB

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Free Download David Engel, "In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942"
English | ISBN: 0807865362 | 2012 | 352 pages | EPUB | 495 KB
The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government’s action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of the complex weighing by the government’s concept of its obligations to the Jewish citizens of Poland.

Free Download David Engel, "Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945"
English | ISBN: 0807820695 | | 328 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Engel’s study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.-Central European History

Free Download Jack J. B. Hutchens, "Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics"
English | ISBN: 179360505X | 2022 | 153 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1060 KB
Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent-whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses of several of those texts, covering nearly every decade of the last century, and includes authors such as Witold Gombrowicz, Marian Pankowski, and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jack J. B. Hutchens demonstrates the subversive power of each work, showing that through their transgressions they help to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. Hutchens argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries on which conservative, heteronormative ideology depends in order to maintain its cultural hegemony.

Free Download Richard H. Whittle – Spit & Polish: The Story of a Little Known Airfield in Chailey,Sussex and Its RAF Polish Spitfire Squadrons Which Played a Vital Role in Support of the D-day Operations of 6th June 1944
Boxer Productions | 2004 | ISBN: 0954801601 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 80.39 MB

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Free Download Tomasz Zarycki, "The Polish Elite and Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology"
English | ISBN: 3031073444 | 2022 | 522 pages | PDF | 110 MB
This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences. The book makes this case study a model for the application of Bourdieu’s approach to the historical analysis of non-core Western societies. The book is, in other words, a reflexive study of the application of Bourdieu’s social theory. At the same time, it also critically studies the application of Western social theory in Poland, which is largely seen as a peripheral country. The study of Polish social sciences, with particular emphasis on linguistics and literary studies, points to the peculiar dynamics of peripheral intellectual and academic fields and their external dependencies. These insights offer a critical extension of Bourdieu’s theory of state and social elites beyond the Western core focusing on how the theories can be used in the reinterpretation and expansion of post-colonial theory, global history and comparative studies of post-communism.

Free Download Peter Whitewood, "Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy, The: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism"
English | ISBN: 1350238945 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB