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The Accidental Immigrant
From the Author Having spent nearly ten years writing my memoirs, originally in Polish, I hope that with this English edition they will reach a wider circle of readers. They span more than eighty years of turbulent world historyand when is such history not turbulent?--and include details which may not be familiar to many readers. Those acquainted with the epoch I am describing may wander, before picking up the book, whether it is yet another retelling of an often described drama, the subject already of myriad historical classics. I would say, yes, but it is a retelling with a twist. This book is, above all, a tale of exceptional good fortune, which, in contrast to the experiences of many oth...
Bodenplatte
"One of our goals was to describe, as accurately as possible, the events taking place in the morning of January 1st, 1945... We had to refrain from going into the nightfighter attacks of December 31st, 1944, and for reasons of brevity we also had to let go of any other bomber or escort missions of the Allied air forces on January 1st. The contents of the book have been divided into chapters dealing with the individual attacks of the Luftwaffe Geschwader. As a result, the subject matter is dealt with primarily from a Luftwaffe point of view. After all, it was a Luftwaffe operation. However, we have endeavoured to create a balanced view of each attack, showing in just as much detail the Allied perspective. At the end of each chapter, we have drawn our conclusions, carefully evaluating all available Luftwaffe and Allied points of view"--P. ix.
Polish Air Force Fighter Aircraft, 1943-1945
From the first combat over Poland in 1939, until Bomber Commands assault on Hitlers alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden in April 1945, when the red and white marked Mustangs escorted the bombers on their way to the target, there was no major RAF aerial operation undertaken in Europe without the involvement of Polish fighter squadrons and pilots. As well as mounting offensive sorties from the UK, Polish fighter squadrons fought in North Africa in 1943, where they added to their already formidable reputation. Some Polish airmen were even posted to the US Air Force, again proving themselves in battle. Polish fighter pilots operated over the Normandy beaches in support of the D-Day landings in J...
Architecture and Waste
Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. Through comparing the well-established waste-to-energy industries in Sweden with less established engagements in the northeast of the United States, opportunities and lessons are revealed. This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. Architects have a role to play in integrating waste-to-energy plants physically and programmatically within their urban or suburban contexts, as well as potentially lessening the generally negative perception of energy recovery plants.
Jerzy Kosinski
He was hailed as one of the world’s great writers and intellectuals, with novels like The Painted Bird and Being There. He was acclaimed as a heroic survivor and witness of the Holocaust. He won high literary awards, made the bestseller lists, taught and lectured in prestigious universities, was feted in high society, and became an intimate of the rich and famous in a jet-set world of glitter and glamour. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a C.I.A. tool, a supreme con man, and a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation and culminated in his headline-making suicide. Now this compelling b...
Najlepsze miasto świata
Po klęsce powstania warszawskiego nazywana niegdyś Paryżem Północy Warszawa zamieniła się w ocean gruzów. Trzeba było mieć wiele wyobraźni, żeby patrząc na sterczące kikuty dawnych kamienic, planować szybkie odrodzenie miasta. A jednak decyzję o jego odbudowie podjęto niemal niezwłocznie. Przed architektami i budowniczymi stanęło trudne zadanie... Choć wizytówką powojennej odbudowy Warszawy stała się zrekonstruowana starówka, to reszta miasta nie miała wrócić do dawnej formy, tylko zamienić się w idealną nowoczesną metropolię. To książka o entuzjazmie i optymizmie, o wyobrażaniu sobie „najlepszego miasta świata” na gruzach starego porządku, o architektach z Biura Odbudowy Stolicy, którzy tworząc miasto swoich marzeń, przykładali rękę do budowy totalitarnego państwa.
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Tyrmand. Pisarz o białych oczach
Podróż śladami Leopolda Tyrmanda i ludzi, których wyobraźnią zawładnął, to scenariusz hollywoodzkiego filmu. Warszawskie zaułki, kalifornijskie bezdroża, nowojorski zgiełk i moskiewskie mrozy. Reporterska opowieść o legendzie Warszawy i autorze Złego to historia znikania i powrotów. Gdy NKWD przystawia mu pistolet do głowy, Tyrmand w ostatniej chwili ucieka od zsyłki na Sybir. Gdy czeka go komora gazowa, zmienia tożsamość z polskiego Żyda na Francuza i jedzie do nazistowskich Niemiec. W Polsce jego książki znikają z księgarń w godzinę. Marek Hłasko nazywa go geniuszem, Witold Gombrowicz – spadkobiercą romantycznej tradycji, a Tadeusz Konwicki i Maria Dąbrowsk...
Polish Air Force Fighter Aircraft, 1940-1942
Polish fighter pilots received their baptism of fire over their own country in September 1939, when they were overwhelmed by the aerial might of Germany and the Soviet Union. Despite this, they claimed over 120 enemy aircraft destroyed. When the Polish Air Force was reborn in France, the same men fought against the same enemy, yet with more experience and with better understanding of their opponents’ tactics – though, as the author reveals, the aircraft they flew were, in most cases, quite different. Polish airmen also proved themselves during the Battle of Britain, when 145 men from Poland, the biggest non-British contingent in Fighter Command, fought for the survival one of the last ba...
