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Recommended political books (7)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into political here are some political books from Poland for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.



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Kassandra by Christa Wolf DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Kassandra, die äSeherinä, ist die schillerndste Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie. Sie sagte dem übermächtigen Troja den Untergang voraus und musste ihre Prophezeiung mit dem Leben bezahlen.

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The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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The Captive Mind examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.

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The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves' Slavomir Rawicz Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag. After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain mea... continue

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The Tin Drum by Günter Grass EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
ONE OF TWELVE TITLES IN VINTAGE'S A FORMAT WAR PROMOTION The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.

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White Shroud by Antanas Škėma EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.