A boy's coming of age in Poland on the eve of World War II. He is Krzys, the son of a wealthy family and as he vacations in a country manor of friends he attempts a romance with their niece. An atmosphere of doom hangs over the place, the war about to destroy the class to which the protagonists belong. By the author of A Mass for Arras.
The continuous and very intense development of IT has resulted in the fast development of computer networks. Computer networks, as well as the entire ?eldofIT,aresubjectto constantchangestriggeredbythegeneraltechnological advancement and the in?uence of new IT technologies.These methods and tools of designing and modeling computer networks are becoming more advanced. Above all, the scope of their application is growing thanks to, for example, the results of new research and because of new proposals of application, which not long ago were not even taken into consideration. These new applications stimulate the development of scienti?c research, as the broader application of system solutions based on computer networks results in a wide range of both theoretical and practical problems. This book proves that and the contents of its chapters concern a variety of topics and issues. Generally speaking, the contents can be divided into several subject groups. The ?rst group of contributions concerns new technologies applied in computer networks,particularlythoserelatedto nano,molecularandquantumtechnology.
Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 led to genocide and massive devastation across Europe. For the Polish people re-building their country after the First World War, dreams of a better future for their children evaporated as the most powerful military machine ever assembled rolled across their Western border and the struggle for national survival began. Within weeks that struggle seemed forlorn as the Soviet army crossed Poland's Eastern border bringing death to many and loading others into trains destined for the infamous 'gulags' scattered across the Soviet Union to the far reaches of Siberia. This book tells the individual stories of one Polish family that overcame Russian brutality and German might, on land, sea and in the air, in fighting to liberate their country.Stanislaw, who was Governor of the Grudziadz District of North Western Poland in September 1939, escaped the clutches of the Germans by evacuating to Warszawa only to be captured later in Lwów by the invading Russians. Herded into freight wagons the month-long train journey was a nightmare for captives who knew nothing of what awaited them at the final destination of their forced exile but feared the worst. Despite the oppressive conditions then experienced in a Soviet forced labour camp, where their Russian guards dubbed the family group “The Grodynski Brigade”, and despite the inhumane treatment encountered as they journeyed back across the Soviet Union to join up with the 'Allied Forces', the spirit of each member of this family remained undaunted.On reaching the relatively safe haven of Tehran, Halina, the wife of Stanislaw, joined the Military Nursing Corps and served as a hospital nurse/sister during assignments in Persia, Egypt and Italy. On exiting Russia, Stanislaw joined the Polish Army Infantry Division in Kazakhstan and served as a soldier/officer in a number of countries, including Italy where his Division fought in the attack on Monte Cassino. Marjan, the younger son of Halina and Stanislaw, was posted with Polish forces to Britain where he undertook naval training in Plymouth before joining the Polish Navy crew of the submarine ORP Sokol (Falcon) in the Scottish port of Dundee. This submarine became famous in sinking many enemy ships during campaigns beneath the waters of the Mediterranean.Andrzej, elder brother of Marjan and author of this book, was sixteen and looking forward to higher education among the elite of the Officer Cadet Academy when his country was invaded. On escaping the control of the Soviet authorities Andrzej was shipped to the port of Glasgow in Scotland. His training to become an Air Force fighter pilot took him from St Andrews to Brighton from where he flew his first operational flights with 306 Squadron, initially hunting V-1 flying bombs. In the combat missions that followed his role was to shield RAF bombers, making hazardous raids on distant enemy targets, from hostile German aircraft.Their experiences and valiant escapades of their Polish comrades during the Second World War are central to the unique stories of each of 'The Grodynski Family', but the profound disappointment and sense of betrayal in learning of the decision of Churchill and Roosevelt to allow Stalin to take control of Poland following victory by 'The Allies' could not be expressed in words. Like many Poles who fought heroically along side British soldiers, sailors and airmen, they felt they could not return to a Poland under the control of a regime that had perpetrated despicable atrocities against their countrymen, although each one of this patriotic family longed to end their exile from their Homeland. The latter pages of this book convey that while this family surmounted obstacles confronting many 'foreigners' settling in Britain at the time, such as a lack of local qualifications or fluency in English when competing for jobs, they continued to be inspired by the vision shared with their ancestors of a free and independent Poland.
At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "write a book about light." The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual form—a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people or events—this book, though bordering on the metaphysical, the mystical, even the supernatural, never loses sight of the particular time, and above all place, in which it is rooted. Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the leading writers of Poland's younger generation, and is currently one of the most popular Polish novelists in English translation.
A woman scientist discovers that a meltdown in a nuclear reactor was caused by a bug in a computer chip. She informs the manufacturer. The company's owner, a member of the military-industrial complex, has her killed to silence her. So begins a thriller starring lady FBI agent Esther Cruz.
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe, and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement, stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality, filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers, the history of Poland, and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors, scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados.
This book contains an overview of many publications by employees of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in the field of Eastern studies. We have selected texts on the recent history of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and communist rule, as well as contemporary Russia and Polish-Russian relations. By making these available to English-speaking readers, on the one hand, we want to present a small part, due to limited space, of the Eastern studies conducted by the Institute and, on the other, pay tribute to their distinguished representative, Richard Pipes. In 2019, according to the last will of this historian, scholar and sovietologist, who died on 18 May 2018, the Institute received his book collection of over three and a half thousand items, mainly concerning Russia and the Soviet Union. These are works of high scientific rank that the scholar collected for over half a century. Acquiring the book collection was the first step towards establishing the Professor Richard Pipes Laboratory. This was possible thanks to funding obtained by the Institute at the end of 2019 from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the Dialogue programme.
This is the first of two volumes which will provide a comprehensive introduction to the modern representation theory of Frobenius algebras. The first part of the book serves as a general introduction to basic results and techniques of the modern representation theory of finite dimensional associative algebras over fields, including the Morita theory of equivalences and dualities and the Auslander-Reiten theory of irreducible morphisms and almost split sequences. The second part is devoted to fundamental classical and recent results concerning the Frobenius algebras and their module categories. Moreover, the prominent classes of Frobenius algebras, the Hecke algebras of Coxeter groups, and the finite dimensional Hopf algebras over fields are exhibited. This volume is self contained and the only prerequisite is a basic knowledge of linear algebra. It includes complete proofs of all results presented and provides a rich supply of examples and exercises. The text is primarily addressed to graduate students starting research in the representation theory of algebras as well as mathematicians working in other fields.
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