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Heroes to Hostages
It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry that informs geopolitics to this day.
The Polish Deportees of World War II
Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941. This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign told in the words of some of the survivors. It is an unforgettable human drama of excruciating martyrdom in the Gulag. For example, one witness reports: "A young woman who had given birth on the train threw herself and her newborn under the wheels of an approaching train." Survivors also tell the story of events after the "amnesty." "Our suffering is simply indescribable. We have spent weeks now sleeping in lice-infested dirty rags in train stations," wrote the Milewski family. Details are also given on the non-European countries that extended a helping hand to the exiles in their hour of need.
Journey from Innocence
Poland's role in World War II has yet to be fully understood in the West. This book provides insight into the conflict from the perspective of a young Polish girl who experienced it. Caught in the middle of the disaster, Dadlez recounts her stirring true-life tale of wandering amid the aftermath of war as she journeys from Poland to Kazakhstan to refugee camps in the Middle East to post-war Britain.
Trail of Hope
A detailed and highly illustrated account of the Polish II Corps' (or 'Anders Army') perilous journey to fight side by side with Allied forces at the height of World War II. Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes and sent eastwards to the arctic wastes of Siberia. Prisoners of war, refugees, those regarded as 'social criminals' by Stalin's regime, and those rounded up by sheer chance were all sent 'to see the Great White Bear'. However, with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa just two years later, Russia and the Allied powers found themselves on the same side...
The Polish Review
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Dzieci wygnane. Tułacze losy małych Polaków w czasie II wojny światowej
Dzieci inaczej pamiętają wojnę Dziewięcioletni Mirek, trzyletnia Ola, pięcioletni Romek, ośmioletnia Marysia. Dzieci rodzące się w bydlęcych wagonach w drodze na Syberię. Dzieci umierające z zimna, pragnienia, wycieńczenia, wyrzucane z transportu na kolejowy nasyp. Dzieci pracujące w tajdze przy wyrębie lasu, walczące o chleb. Dzieci osierocone, którym przyszło odgrywać rolę matek i ojców dla swych młodszych sióstr i braci. Dzieci odważne i niezłomne, które ocaliły siebie i bliskich z sowieckiego piekła. Przeszły z armią Andersa jej żołnierską odyseję, trafiły do Iranu, Afryki, Indii i Nowej Zelandii. Polskie dzieci, którym wydarto dzieciństwo, pamiętają...
Iran – śladami polskich uchodźców
Książka reprezentuje niezbyt często spotykany na naszym rynku wydawniczym rodzaj literatury podróżniczej. Łączy bowiem opis wyprawy, jej epizodów, spotkań, rozmów i impresji z pogłębioną refleksją historyczną i politologiczną. Autor, podróżnik kontynuujący tradycje swej rodziny oraz uznany badacz problematyki bliskowschodniej wykorzystuje swą wiedzę i umiejętności do zrelacjonowania efektów projektu Iran śladami polskich uchodźców. W jego ramach przedsięwzięta została wyprawa do Iranu, której efektem stało się odkrycie wielu ciekawych i nieznanych dotąd pamiątek pobytu tam Polaków, którzy zostali w 1942 r. wraz z Armią gen. Andersa ewakuowani z „nielud...
Isfahan
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