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Recommended political books (3)
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.

1.

Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine by Pawel Pieniazek EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Recommended: 13 Nov 2022

2.

The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz EN

Rating: 4     4 Votes
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
Recommended: 01 Nov 2022

3.

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz EN

Rating: 3.5     38 Votes
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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