Does anyone know if there are any fiction books about the royalty or similar in Poland? come to think of it I have never come across any HF about Poland...
Same with Russia; are there any HF about the Tsar's?
Thank you
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Poland and Russia
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James Michener wrote a novel called, appropriately enough, Poland. There are some others, which will turn up if you go to the home page at HistoricalNovels.info and search on "Poland." One that intrigues me, though I haven't read it (or anything else by the author), is James Conroyd Martin's Push Not the River, about a Polish countess during the Napoleonic era.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.
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[quote=""Margaret""]James Michener wrote a novel called, appropriately enough, Poland. There are some others, which will turn up if you go to the home page at HistoricalNovels.info and search on "Poland." One that intrigues me, though I haven't read it (or anything else by the author), is James Conroyd Martin's Push Not the River, about a Polish countess during the Napoleonic era.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.[/quote]
I read the two Conroyd Martin books and enjoyed them, although I'd call them library books as opposed to purchasing. I later got a bit turned off at his ummm....rather heavy handed use of tagging at Amazonto get his book everywhere.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.[/quote]
I read the two Conroyd Martin books and enjoyed them, although I'd call them library books as opposed to purchasing. I later got a bit turned off at his ummm....rather heavy handed use of tagging at Amazonto get his book everywhere.
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Hmmm - that would turn me off, too.
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[quote=""Margaret""]James Michener wrote a novel called, appropriately enough, Poland. There are some others, which will turn up if you go to the home page at HistoricalNovels.info and search on "Poland." One that intrigues me, though I haven't read it (or anything else by the author), is James Conroyd Martin's Push Not the River, about a Polish countess during the Napoleonic era.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.[/quote]
Michener's "Poland" is great. Michener himself said it was the place he most wanted to write about in the forward.
Henry Sienkiewecz wrote "Knights of the Cross" about the Teutonic knights invasions of Poland. Much better than his more famous "Quo vadis"
Im a bit surprised that there isnt something on Jan Sobieski I and his Hussars who turned back the ottoman turks at the second seige of vienna
It seems most books focus on Poland's WWII history.
Poland has an interesting history - I've encountered bits and pieces of it while researching the history of other areas (nothing in history exists apart from everything else in history, it seems) - which does seem to be underrepresented in historical fiction.[/quote]
Michener's "Poland" is great. Michener himself said it was the place he most wanted to write about in the forward.
Henry Sienkiewecz wrote "Knights of the Cross" about the Teutonic knights invasions of Poland. Much better than his more famous "Quo vadis"
Im a bit surprised that there isnt something on Jan Sobieski I and his Hussars who turned back the ottoman turks at the second seige of vienna
It seems most books focus on Poland's WWII history.
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[quote=""Misfit""]I read the two Conroyd Martin books and enjoyed them, although I'd call them library books as opposed to purchasing. I later got a bit turned off at his ummm....rather heavy handed use of tagging at Amazonto get his book everywhere.[/quote]
Was that him? He tagged my books as similiar to his, or vice versa.
Was that him? He tagged my books as similiar to his, or vice versa.
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[quote=""cw gortner""]Was that him? He tagged my books as similiar to his, or vice versa.[/quote]
Yes it was, as you can see from the reviewshe's written, as well as from the Wish List.
I know you guys have to do what you have to do, and I understand tagging is important - but I tell you, when I came across his two books recommended from tags on an old VHS video of My Cousin Rachel (filmed in the 1950's), that was just too OTT for me.
Or look at it this way, look how many tags his own book has here.
Yes it was, as you can see from the reviewshe's written, as well as from the Wish List.
I know you guys have to do what you have to do, and I understand tagging is important - but I tell you, when I came across his two books recommended from tags on an old VHS video of My Cousin Rachel (filmed in the 1950's), that was just too OTT for me.
Or look at it this way, look how many tags his own book has here.
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