The Polish House - An Intimate History of Poland

Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

An intimate history of Poland told through the personal experience of restoring a house in a village plagued by invasion and disaster. The story is about ordinary people whose lives fill this moving and evocative book, but Sikorski isalso acutely aware of the grand wheels of history and politics at work not only on a house, but a village and a country....