THE SUMMIT TIMES

BOOK REVIEWS

• Norman Davis, Rising of ¹44: The Battle for Warsaw. This extremely well-written book outlines the history both before, during and after the '44 rising, and the great detail shows that there was a deliberate ignoring of the plight of the Polish patriots by their Western allies, with a stalling on the part of the Soviets until the rising was crushed by the Nazis. There were many political reasons for why both East and West acted as they did in relation to Poland, but knowing that does not excuse what was done to a brave little country that had the guts to stand up to the Germans, when all about them were caving in to pressure. The Western betrayal is the same as we read in the other recent book about Polish fighters in the war "A Question of Honor", and the harsh glow of history shines on what was not done, and what might have been done.
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• Stefan Korbonski Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945. Fighting Warsaw is an extraordinary human story written by Stefan Korbonski, on of the leaders of the Polish Underground State. In this book he portrays the years of the German occupation during the Second World War, and the beginning of anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire Underground State organization, its strategy, and tactics of the Polish underground which included: armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts of the Soviet puppets who formed the communist government under strict control of the Soviet NKVD.
• Jamie Glazov: An Interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, the authors of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage. Book written by two leading historians of American communism, displaing an unparalled command of Soviet sources. A bluntly honest book about leftists in the American historical establishment who are  in denial of the crimes of Stalinism,  and minimizing the evils of communism, as well as painting their own society as not only just as evil, but even more evil than the Cold War enemy.
• Gustaw Herling (Grudzinski) "The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories" -- presents an excellent introduction to Herling's work. These stories were selected by Herling himself shortly before his death. He is Poland's greatest writer well known for his memoir about world word II soviet prison camp "A world Apart," and "Volcano" -- short fiction and prose.
• Norman Finkel stein "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" - a new, expanded edition. "One should keep in mind that Finkelstein's mother received $3,500 for spending years in the Warsaw ghetto  and in labor camps--the same amount D'Amato made in ten hours' work [Poland was occupied by German Army, and Germans created the getto].
• Israel Shahak "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years"
• Dr. Laura Schlessinger The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
• Anne Applebaum "GULAG: A History" - a narrative account of the origins and development of the Soviet concentration camps, from Lenin to Gorbachev.
• K. Karlsbad, Pages Torn from My Youth - This book is more than a war story.  It is a remarkable record of the heroism of the human spirit, the resilience of a nation, and the testing and tempering of youth in the crucible of the Second World War.
• Gunnar S. Paulsson, Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945- a vibrant portrait of the complexity of Warsaw life, and especially of the 'secret city,' a collection of 28,000 Jews not confined to the ghetto, together with the many non-Jews who helped hide them.
• Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II - this book traces the roots of Polish-Jewish conflict after the war, demonstrating that it was a two-sided phenomenon and not simply an extension of the Holocaust.
• Karen Majewski. Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939.
• Bozena Shallcross. Framing the Polish Home - a pioneering work that explores the idea of home as fundamental to the question of cultural and national identity within Poland's recent history and its tradition.
• Waclaw Kruszka, "A History of the Poles in America to 1908; Poles in the Central and Western States," part 4.
• Zofia Ludwika Malachowska Ptasnik, "A Polish Woman's Daily Struggle to Survive; Her Diary of Deportation, Forced Labor, and Death in Kazakhstan" (Soviet Union)
• Ed Piszek: A Life of Purpose
• An Instant Access to Polish History
• Poland's Challenges on a Road Toward Democracy
• Eva Hoffman, Shtetl, the life and death of a small town and the world of the Polish Jews
• Andrzej Zybertowicz, Maria Los, Privatizing the Police State: The Case of Poland
• Richard C. Lukas, "Zapomniany Holocaust. Polacy pod okupacja niemiecka 1939-1944"
• Piekarski, Konstanty, "Escaping Hell" - a true story based on five year incarceration in German concentration camps.
• Exiled to Siberia: A Polish Child's World War II Journey by Klaus Hergt
• Israel Shahak, "Jewish History, Jewish Religion" -- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and American Democracy. George W. Bush, a member of an illuminati family, as well as a creature of big oil, needs little incentive to do Israel's bidding. There is evidence of a cadre of Zionist agents at the highest levels of the US government who control policy much like Communist agents controlled FDR.
• The General Langfitt Story; Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal and Resettlement (in the Soviet Union)
• James Conroyd Martin, "Push Not The River"
• Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
• E.H. Lewinski-Corwin, Political History of Poland
• "The Black Book of Communism" - Communism's 100 Million Victims
• An interview with W.S. Kuniczak, the author of The Thousand Hour Day

• Jozef Mackiewicz - pisarz nieobecny. Jeden z najwiekszych polskich pisarzy XX wieku pozostaje w naszej Ojczyznie prawie w ogole nieznany. Jego dziel nie ma w ksiegarniach, czytelniach i bibliotekach szkolnych. Wylacznosc na druk jego ksiazek ma Nina Karsov-Szechter, wdowa po Szymonie Szechterze, stryju Adama Michnika, ktora od lat robi wszystko, by spuscizna po Mackiewiczu zostala skazana na zapomnienie.
• Czeslaw Karkowski "Z tamtej strony zelaznej kurtyny" - ksiazka Benjamina Weisera o plk. Ryszardzie Kuklinskim: "A Secret Life. The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country"
• Album "Katyn w pomnikach swiata"  Aliny Siomkajlo
• Lynne Olson i Stanley Cloud "For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two" (Za wolnosc wasza i nasza: Dywizjon Kosciuszkowski: Zapomniani bohaterowie II wojny swiatowej) - nowa angielska ksiazka na temat Dywizjonu 303.
• Encyklopedia nauczania spolecznego Jana Pawla II - pierwsza w j“zyku polskim encyklopedia nauczania Papieskiego zebranego i przedstawionego w formie 120 encyklopedycznych hasel.
• Jerzy R. Nowak "Antypolonizm; zdzieranie masek - pokazuje sposoby wspolczesnego propagandowego wybielania Niemiec kosztem Polski.
• Marek Jan Chodakiewicz "Ejszyszki. Kulisy zajsc, epilog stosunkow polsko-zydowskich na kresach, 1944-45: Wspomnienia - Dokumenty - Publicystyka". Ksiazka broni dobrego imienia tej, z ktorej zawsze moglismy byē dumni, mimo ze tyle razy ja szargano - Armii Krajowej. Nagroda im. Jozefa Mackiewicza
• "Zolnierze wykleci. Antykomunistyczne podziemie zbrojne po 1944 roku" -- gineli w walce. Byli podstepnie zabijani. Wybierali samobojstwo zamiast aresztowania przez UB. Mordowano ich w wiezieniach Polski Ludowej.
• Jerzy Robert Nowak " Zbrodnie UB" - aby zrozumiec, jak absurdalne i nie majace niczego wspolnego z obiektywna prawda historyczna sa wszelkie proby wybielania roli Zydow w UB, wystarczy po prostu przyjrzec sie dokladnie czolowym postaciom dominujacym w stalinowskim Ministerstwie Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego, czyli faktycznym syndykatem zbrodni w owczesnej Polsce.
• Marek Jan Chodakiewicz "Zydzi i Polacy 1918-1955. Wspolistnienie - Zaglada - Komunizm".
• Janina Kielbon, Zofia Leszczynska, Kobiety Lubelszczyzny represjonowane w latach 1944-1956
• "Slownik zolnierzy wykletych", IPN o konspiracji 1944 - 1956
• Bogdan Musial: "Rozstrzelac elementy kontrrewolucyjne! Brutalizacja wojny niemiecko-sowieckiej latem 1941 roku".
• "Tygiel narodow. Stosunki spoleczne i etniczne na dawnych ziemiach wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej 1939-1953"
• O ksiazce Leszka Elektorowicza "Nienawisc". Autor recenzji podkresla, ze: "w obecnej Polsce, zwanej III RP, a posiadajacej wiele elementow PRL-bis, ksiazki przypominające represje komunistow bywają raczej przemilczane przez krytyke.
• Wladyslaw i Ewa Siemaszkowie, "Ludobojstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistow ukrainskich na ludnosci polskiej Wolynia 1939-1945" - nagroda im. Jozefa Mackiewicza
• Listy Jana Nowaka-Jezioranskiego i Jerzego Giedroycia: "Bedziemy walczyli z falszowaniem naszej historii"
• O ksiazce Andrzeja Targowskiego - "Infostrada, tenis i polityka"
• Wiktor Poliszczuk, "Dowody zbrodni OUN i UPA"
• Aleksander Korman,"Ukrainska Powstancza Armia na terenach II Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i jej stosunek do ludnosci polskiej"
• Polskie watki w "Archiwum Mitrochina"

Norman Davies, Europe: A History, Oxford University Press, New York 1996.
Norman Davies, God's Playground; A History of Poland, Columbia University Press, New York 1982