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'... a fascinating blend of biography and history, which poignantly evokes the pain and loss attendant on exile...' -- Telegraph
` As a work of history... this book is a great success'
--Sunday Times
'He has a cracking story which he tells with compassion, verve, and the professional historian's restraint and accuracy.'
--Irish Times
(Matthew Kelly) has a cracking story which he tells with compassion, verve, and the professional historian's restraint and accuracy'
--Irish Times
An epic story of courage, determination, separation and survival --Western Morning News Saturday, May 29, 2010 thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk
A moving tribute...to the thousands of other Poles who experienced displacement, disruption and trauma during the Second World War.
--Western Morning News Saturday, May 29, 2010 thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk
` As a work of history... this book is a great success'
--Sunday Times
'He has a cracking story which he tells with compassion, verve, and the professional historian's restraint and accuracy.'
--Irish Times
(Matthew Kelly) has a cracking story which he tells with compassion, verve, and the professional historian's restraint and accuracy'
--Irish Times
An epic story of courage, determination, separation and survival --Western Morning News Saturday, May 29, 2010 thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk
A moving tribute...to the thousands of other Poles who experienced displacement, disruption and trauma during the Second World War.
--Western Morning News Saturday, May 29, 2010 thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk
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An expansive, insightful and moving history of the Polish experience during World War Two, and its lasting legacy
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A very engaging book. Kelly manages to blend a personal and often touching story from his grandmother's childhood, tracking her wartime journey from eastern Poland to Kazakhstan, Iran and India to Britain, with the historical backdrop of these events. The history illuminates the personal; the family story is often told through correspondence which magically survived to this day. While Poland suffered greatly at the hands of the Germans, the book traces the less familiar fate of those taken east - on a journey that started with mass deportation of Poles to Siberia/Russia/Kazakhstan in 1941. FINDING POLAND gives you the historical context to enrich the standard wartime narrative and explain how many Poles found themselves living all across the globe. A compelling read.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book gives a wonderful insight into a little-known episode of the Second World War - the forced migration of thousands of Poles living in the borderlands of the Soviet Union in the aftermath of Soviet occupation. It weaves together scholarship and family history providing what feels like a very privileged insight into one family's personal experience. It interprets this experience within the context of much larger processes of historical change taking place in eastern Europe at the time. It is a rich account too of the construction of Polish identity - and a reminder of the long and varied history of Polish migration to the UK. Highly recommended!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I personally had no idea that so many Polish people faced these incredible deportations and journeys during the Second World War. This book brilliantly describes the story of just one family (the author's own), the knock on the door in the middle of the night, the increasingly far-flung locations, filled with family photos, letters and memories. But also explains clearly the politics and history behind the one family's story. I was gripped.
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What a humbling book written from the diaries and notes of a Polish family who were ethnically cleansed from their Homeland when the Russians INVADED Poland. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Jan Scott
Finding Poland is well worth finding
This book takes the reader on a historial journey told via the eyes of a family, but in a non-fiction way. Read more
Published 7 months ago by AvidReader
A Forgotten Story Well Told
As a Canadian living in Poland for the past 18 years, I was always been curious about the incredible & poignant journey of those Poles in WWII who followed Ander's Army into... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Robert P, Warsaw
Excellent
A fantastically written book with vivid descriptions that brings the circumstances of those many thousands of Poles to life. Read more
Published 15 months ago by John
Poland founded
Finding Poland" by Matt Kelly tells an interesting story of deportation, refugee and uncertain fate of the Poles during the Second World War. Read more
Published 20 months ago by M. Cybowski
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This book echoes similar stories written by many people who experienced the kresy clearances but this is written with such deep historical and political background that it sheds an... Read more
Published 23 months ago by JD
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