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Poland is a 1981 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 by James A. Michener
James A. Michener

James Albert Michener was an United States author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well....
 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 families (The Lubonski Family, The Bukowski Family, and the Buk Family) across eight centuries. Michener wrote the book after an extensive study of Poland's history and culture.

Like Michener's other works, this novel is written in an episodic format.








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Poland is a 1981 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 by James A. Michener
James A. Michener

James Albert Michener was an United States author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well....
 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 families (The Lubonski Family, The Bukowski Family, and the Buk Family) across eight centuries. Michener wrote the book after an extensive study of Poland's history and culture.

Like Michener's other works, this novel is written in an episodic format.

Chapter-by-chapter

  1. Buk versus Bukowski: present day (1981)
  2. From the East: invasion by Tartars
  3. From the West: occupation by the Teutonic Knights
    Teutonic Knights

    The Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem , or for short the Teutonic Order was a Germans Roman Catholic religious order....
  4. From the North: invasion by Sweden
    Polish-Swedish wars

    The Polish?Swedish Wars were a series of wars between the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, in the wider meaning to the series of wars in which both Sweden and Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth participated between 1563 and 1721, in the narrower meaning denoting the two wars between 1600 and 1629....
  5. From the South: invasion by Ottoman Empire
    Ottoman Empire

    The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
    (Battle of Vienna
    Battle of Vienna

    The Battle of Vienna , Ukrainian language: ????????? ?????? took place on 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months....
    )
  6. The Golden Freedom: Kosciuszko
  7. Mazurka: end of the 19th century
  8. Shattered Dreams: Russian Communists defeated at the Battle of Zamosc
    Zamosc

    Zamosc [] is a town in southeastern Poland with 66,633 inhabitants , situated in the Lublin Voivodeship . About 20 kilometres from the town is the Roztocze National Park....
    , 1920
  9. The Terror: occupation by the Nazis
  10. Bukowski versus Buk: present day (1981)