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White Eagle, Red Star by Norman Davies6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Over the years, Prof. Davies received many honors and distinctions. His books have been translated into over thirty languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. As a successful historian writing in English, however, he rapidly gained a worldwide readership and devoted himself to informing the world about Poland. His early books – White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, (1972), God's Playground: a history of Poland (1981), and Heart of Europe: the past in Poland's present (1984) – were banned by the censorship of the Soviet Block and long unavailable to Polish readers. Fascinated by what he learned and by what the authorities did not want him to learn, he made the study of Polish history the starting point of his academic career. Norman Davies first visited Poland in March 1962, when he was still a student in his final year at Oxford. ![]()
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