A comprehensive, balanced, clearly written, and engaging new history of Poland... May Poland find many readers. They will not be disappointed in what they see.
The Polish Review
This is a clearly presented and compellingly written survey of the history of Poland from its founding in the tenth century through to the present day.
Canadian Slavonic Papers
A major achievement, lucidly and engagingly written.
Cosmopolitan Review
The book provides even chronological coverage of a full 1,000 years of history and is exhaustive in scope, with the numerous subheadings lending it an almost encyclopedic quality. Dabrowski writes in an accessible, and in some places conversational, style, doing away with distracting jargon and replacing it with rhetorical questions, entertaining anecdotes, and well-chosen maps and images.
Journal of Modern History
Elegant writing with frequent vivid metaphorical language and skillful rearticulation of idiomatic and historic Polish proverbs into English make Dabrowski's prose captivating and easy to read.... [A] well-written, informative volume.
H-Net Reviews
In this sprawling and ambitious work, Dabrowski proceeds systematically from Poland's foundational myths, with their roots at the end of the first millennium, to the fall of Communism and the establishment of democracy in 1989. Dabrowski avoids academic prose, and even those with no background will find the text engrossing. Precise yet lyrical, she convincingly connects the lessons of Polish history to issues of universal import.
Publishers Weekly
Poland deserves being considered as one of the most valuable synthetic depictions of the history of Poland ever penned by an Anglo-Saxon author.
Acta Poloniae Historica
A work of truly impressive and painstaking scholarship, Poland is enhanced with the inclusion of a list of illustrations, an informative preface, a Note on Names, a pronunciation guide, an eight page list of suggestions for further reading, and a thirty-nine page index. Very highly recommended.
Midwest Book Review
