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Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918-1939

Watt tells the story of the painful birth, tormented life, and cataclysmic death of the independent Poland of 1918-1939. He also gives the definitive account in English of the dominant figure in this story, the Polish freedom fighter and strongman Jozef Pilsudski, whose admirers included Poland's Jews and Adolf Hitler.

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 511 pages

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