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1	Story of a Secret State more books like this by Jan Karski add to wishlist In Nazi-occupied Poland, schools, courts and newspapers were operated by the Polish Underground secretly, right under the nose of the Gestapo. The author who was liaison officer between the underground and the exiled Polish government in London, wrote this amazing report right after the liberation. see all copies from $2.21! new only from $29.97! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The pianist : the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 more books like this by Wladyslaw Szpilman add to wishlist Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Army in Exile: The Story of the Second Polish Corps more books like this by W1adys1aw Anders add to wishlist see all copies from $39.95! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
4	In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813 more books like this by Heinrich von Brandt, Heinrich Von Brandt add to wishlist They recount the adventures of a man who, by the time he was twenty-five, had marched from Madrid to Moscow and had been severely wounded on three separate occasions. From 1808 to 1812 he was caught up in Napoleon's attempt to subjugate Spain, fighting in battles, sieges (including the siege of Saragossa) and hunting and being hunted by merciless ... see all copies from $12.21! new only from $99.00!
5	Jump for Life more books like this by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys add to wishlist Ruth Altbeker Cyprys was a young Jewish lawyer who, together with her child Eva, survived WWII in the most extraordinary circumstances. In this journal, written immediately after the War and then hidden away for nearly 50 years, Cyprys tells about the terrifying deportations that began in 1942, about her own incredible escape with her child from a ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
6	Have You Forgotten? more books like this by Christine Zamoyska-Panek, Christine Panek, Fred Benton Holmberg add to wishlist In the bestselling tradition of Life and Death in Shanghai, this is one woman's powerful story of heroism and survival in the Polish Resistance movement during World War II. 30 photos. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $18.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Courier from Warsaw more books like this by Jan Nowak add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Little House on Mount Carmel more books like this by Alexandre Blumstein add to wishlist see all copies from $2.67! new only from $5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Scenes from a Disturbed Childhoo more books like this by Adam Czerniawski add to wishlist The autobiography of a Polish poet and translator now living in England, which describes his childhood in Warsaw at the outbreak of World War II, and the remarkable journey undertaken by his family as they fled across Europe to the Middle East in order to escape German occupation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
10	Dying, We Live: The Personal Chronicle of a Young Freedom Fighter in Warsaw, 1939-1945 more books like this by Julian Eugene Kulski add to wishlist see all copies from $11.25! signed copies \| first editions
11	Man in the Middle: A Story of the Polish Resistance, 1940-45 more books like this by Witold Sagajllo add to wishlist see all copies from $9.90! first editions \| SVS
12	A jump for life : a survivor's journal from Nazi-occupied Poland more books like this by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys, Elaine Potter add to wishlist The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping from a moving train bound for Treblinka. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $21.03! \| first editions
13	The last of the war horses more books like this by Klemens Rudnicki add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! signed copies \| first editions
14	Fragments from a childhood, 1939-1945. more books like this by Binjamin Wilkomirski add to wishlist Binjamin Wilkomirski was a tiny child when the round-ups in Poland began. His father was killed in front of him, he was separated from his family, and found himself completely alone, three or four years old, in Majdanek death camp. Moved from camp to camp as the years went on, in 1945 he was half-kidnapped, half-rescued from an orphanage in Cracow ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
15	No Place to Run: A True Story as Told by David Gilbert more books like this by David Gilbert, Tim Shortridge, Michael D Frounfelter add to wishlist David and Sophie Goetzel left Germany in 1935 to escape Nazi anti-Semitism. They moved to Warsaw, Poland, and were married. Once there, they planned to move to a safer country, farther away from the Nazi threat. But when their daughter, Micki, was born in 1937, financial constraints forced them to delay those plans. On September 1, 1939, they were ... see all copies from $5.12! new only from $19.29!
16	The Silver Madonna: Or, the Odyssey of Eugenia Wasilewska more books like this by Eugenia Wasilewska add to wishlist see all copies from $15.16! first editions
17	Night never ending more books like this by Eugenjusz Andrei Komorowski add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! first editions
18	Escape Into Danger more books like this by George Ivers add to wishlist see all copies from $2.89! signed copies \| first editions
19	Beech Boat more books like this by Janina Koscialkowska, Anna Marianska (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
20	A Life Displaced: A Mennonite Woman's Flight from War-Torn Poland more books like this by Edna Schroeder Thiessen add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	A stranger to hell more books like this by Stefan Badeni add to wishlist see all copies from $5.90! first editions
22	Freely I Served more books like this by Stanislaw M. Sosabowski add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00! new only from $39.95!
23	A Boy in the Gulag more books like this by Jerzy Kmiecik add to wishlist see all copies from $58.28! first editions
24	The lonely soldier : the war memoirs of a Polish partisan more books like this by Z. W. Maslany add to wishlist see all copies from $31.75! new only from $50.23! \| first editions
25	Red Snow: A Young Pole's Epic Search for His Family in Stalinist Russia more books like this by Telesfor Sobierajski add to wishlist see all copies from $7.83! first editions

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