Polish War Veterans in Alberta: The Last Four Stories
Autor Aldona Jaworskaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781772123739
ISBN-10: 1772123730
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
ISBN-10: 1772123730
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
Comentariile autorului
59 B&W photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Cuprins
I Polish World War II Veterans1 From Citizens to Prisoners 2 From Prisoners to Soldiers 3 From Soldiers to Stateless Immigrants 4 The Immigrant as Ethnic 5 Polish Veterans and Canadian Veterans: A Comparison II Polish War Veterans’ Stories6 Interviewing the Veterans 7 Anatol (Tony) Nieumierzycki (1923–2017) 8 Władysław (Walter) Niewiński (1918–2012) 9 Zbigniew (Leo) Rogowski (1927–) 10 Stefan Koselak (1921–1960) III From Victory to Sorrow11 Understanding the Polish War Veterans’ Experiences
Recenzii
"At war’s end some 250,000 Polish veterans were stranded in Europe. Returning home was a ticket to the Soviet Gulag.... Author Jaworska is a passionate writer. Her interviews with survivors are compelling. Polish War Veterans In Alberta has a melancholy quality...with a very human ending." Holly Doan, Blacklock's Reporter, April 13, 2019 [Full review at https://www.blacklocks.ca/book-review-men-without-a-country/]
“Jaworska’s book is a most timely and needed publication that serves as a welcome explanation of the origin of the post World War II Polish arrivals to the Great Plains….Careful reading of these stories of exile and military service collected by Jaworska would greatly increase Canadian awareness of the background of the Polish immigrants of the mid-1940s… [Polish War veterans in Alberta] is well organized and an engrossing read .” Anna Mazurkiewicz, Great Plains Quarterly, Winter-Spring, 2022.
“Jaworska has excelled in preparing these histories of the wartime and postwar lives of these four brave men…The book will appeal both to scholars and lay readers interested in learning from first-hand accounts about the Polish perspective on the most destructive war in history and about an almost forgotten time in Canada’s immigration history.” Michal Mlynarz, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 14 Feb 2022.
#10 on the Calgary Non-fiction Bestsellers list, June 15, 2023
"By recording and publishing these stories, Jaworska adds important and previously unheard voices to the body of literature about Polish soldiers, detainees in the Soviet Union, as well as Polish migrants in Alberta. . . . Readers and researchers interested in the firsthand accounts of the lives of valiant veterans and uprooted Poles during World War H and the postwar era in Europe, the Soviet Union, and in Canada will find the publication useful. " Joshua C. Blank, Polish American Studies, Autumn 2021
“Jaworska’s book is a most timely and needed publication that serves as a welcome explanation of the origin of the post World War II Polish arrivals to the Great Plains….Careful reading of these stories of exile and military service collected by Jaworska would greatly increase Canadian awareness of the background of the Polish immigrants of the mid-1940s… [Polish War veterans in Alberta] is well organized and an engrossing read .” Anna Mazurkiewicz, Great Plains Quarterly, Winter-Spring, 2022.
“Jaworska has excelled in preparing these histories of the wartime and postwar lives of these four brave men…The book will appeal both to scholars and lay readers interested in learning from first-hand accounts about the Polish perspective on the most destructive war in history and about an almost forgotten time in Canada’s immigration history.” Michal Mlynarz, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 14 Feb 2022.
#10 on the Calgary Non-fiction Bestsellers list, June 15, 2023
"By recording and publishing these stories, Jaworska adds important and previously unheard voices to the body of literature about Polish soldiers, detainees in the Soviet Union, as well as Polish migrants in Alberta. . . . Readers and researchers interested in the firsthand accounts of the lives of valiant veterans and uprooted Poles during World War H and the postwar era in Europe, the Soviet Union, and in Canada will find the publication useful. " Joshua C. Blank, Polish American Studies, Autumn 2021