God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795

The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.

Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.

This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

• God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present
• Europe: A History
• Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
• Poland: A History
• White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula
• No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II (General Military)
• Poland: The First Thousand Years
• The Essential Guide to Being Polish: 50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
• A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories)
• God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2, 1795 to the Present