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Poland

Poland’s Grand Panjandrum
It is hard to engage seriously with Adam Michnik's scattered collection of essays
Agnieszka Kolakowska

Communist-Free
I taught English in Poland in the 1960s and can safely say there were virtually no Communists in the country
Derwent May

Pole Position
This year could mark the coming of age of Poland as a musical nation. What took so long?
Norman Lebrecht

To One War, 55 Marks

This year's war on expenses is nothing compared to the one started in 1939 - World War II

Daniel Johnson

Katyn Denial
Residual guilt about this Soviet atrocity may be preventing Andrzej Wajda's film Katyn from getting the coverage it deserves in Britain
Helen Szamuely

From Treblinka to Tannenberg
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
Simon Scott Plummer

How I Rewrote Polish History
Poland used to be written off as a failed state. But it has survived Nazism and communism to become a model for Europe
Adam Zamoyski

Classic Teller of Painful Truths

The Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, whose collected work is now available in English for the first time, crystallised the ravages of invasion and communist rule in his quest to tell the truth about pain

Derwent May

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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