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John Radzilowski

Autor(a) de A Traveller's History of Poland

8 Works 56 Membros 1 Review

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John Radzilowski is the author or co-author of half a dozen books and over a hundred articles on a wide variety of topics. He received his BA in 1989 from Southwest State University (Marshall, Minn.) and his Ph.D. in history in 1999 from Arizona State University. He has written extensively on the mostrar mais history of Polish Americans: on their rural communities, on organizational life, on crime and the underworld, on Polish Americans in World War II, and on the role of Catholicism and parishes. He has also written on the history of many other immigrant groups, on the history of Poland and east-central Europe, on the history of the state of Minnesota, on the problems and history of rural Midwestern communities, and on military history. He lives in Minnesota mostrar menos

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a concise history, but it's not exactly ... gripping. the illustrations seem like they came from a google image search, and i found some serious grammatical errors throughout, which just exacerbates the non-grippingness of the text (what? it's a word. kinda). still, i feel like i know a lot more about my adopted country now. do you realize that when fighting the russians after WWI, in a desperate and ultimately succesful attempt to get their country back, people fought with whatever they had, including priests, who tried to hold back the attacking hoards with crucifixes?

that's awesome.
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J.Flux | Aug 13, 2022 |

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Obras
8
Membros
56
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#291,557
Avaliação
½ 3.3
Críticas
1
ISBN
16

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