Poles persevere, there was no giving up.Very brave people risked their lives to keep the Polish language alive.Poland ceased to exist, it was taken over by neighboring countries.Poland saved Europe and Christianity by defeating the Turks in Vienna.Polish kings were not Polish, and they were elected!.Purchases via these links generate revenue for this website at no additional cost to you. It was an amazing history lesson! The Amazon links below are part of their Associate program. We follow families rich and poor through hundreds of years of history. Then we’re whisked back into the past, to medieval Poland, a land of magnates and serfs.

The story opens with a government official negotiating with farmers about production during the Soviet times. It was a relief when I finally did open Poland to find people and conversation waiting for me in the first few pages.

I work on it for days and was never rewarded with any characters or conversation, ugh! As I recall, the book starts with the formation of the geographic land mass that is the Iberian peninsula. It remains to this day, one of the few books I’ve started and not finished. I could not for the life if me get into the book. I’d been leery of Michener’s writing ever since a senior officer in Ed’s squadron recommended Michener’s Iberia to me when we arrived in Spain in the early 1980s. I checked out Iberia from the base library and renewed it a couple of times. I must admit that I didn’t start it right away. As I was leaving Arizona to move to Poland, a friend gave me two books about my new home, one was James Michener’s historical novel, Poland.

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