For seven years, Sasza Zulaska has lived with her little girl in the north of England. Far from her previous job as an undercover cop, far from her dependence on alcohol and the traumatic case that made her flee from the police, her family and her native Poland. But now she is coming back. This time, Sasza is looking for a quieter life. She has studied to become a psychological profiler and she soon picks up a freelance job to check out some threats...

Each title in this series looks at a country through a variety of themes such as location, landscape and climate, population and health, settlements, family life, religion and beliefs, education, employment and economy, industry and trade, farming and food, transport and communications, leisure and tourism and environment and wildlife.

One of a series of titles looking at the citizens, geography, history, economy, environment and tourism of the ten newest member states of the European Union.

Capture the essence of Poland with this guide. With listings on hotels and restaurants, and improved maps, it also provides practical information on where to go, what to take, how to get around, local specialities, main sight-seeing attractions, and a complete area by area guide.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who managed to stay alive throughout WW2. Immediately afterwards he wrote this moving account. Today, Szpilman is an internationally renowned classical pianist

Frank Blaichman was 16 when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. He escaped deportation to a concentration camp by hiding in the forest, where he later formed a resistance movement & fought a guerilla campaign against the German army until the end of the war.

Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey stretching from Siberia to Pakistan, and beyond.

It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgorska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one...

You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh...

Explores various aspects of Poland such as geography, wildlife, daily life, and customs.