ZAREMBA - HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY volume 1-2

ZAREMBA

HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1918 - 1939

prepared for print by Łatyński Marek

Volumes 1-2

Paris, 1981, Instytut Literacki, pp. volume 1- 238, [6], volume 2- 432, [8]; format 14x20 cm

"This book is a selection of radio talks that Pawel Zaremba gave at the Polish station of Radio Free Europe. (...) There were these chatterboxes - that's what the author called them - more than four hundred in total and they were broadcast from 1967 to 1979 every week with only rare breaks. The author talked about contemporary Polish history - he did not speak. And this was probably one of the secrets of the success he had with his listeners, both historians and ordinary lovers of their own country's history, and perhaps especially among students, who sought from him assessments that differed from the official Polish ones. Another secret of success was the subject matter of the talks. This is not the place to judge their content. But it should be said that he presented the history of this historical phenomenon, which was the resurrection of Poland and the independent existence of the Second Republic, in a clear, simple and profound way, that he saw the rationale of the various and that he was objective and fair." Marek Latynski, "Instead of an introduction," in Pawel Zaremba, "Historia dwudziestolecia 1918-1939," published by the Literary Institute, Paris, 1981, p. 7.

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BDB- condition.