Sketches_from_a_Secret_War:_A_Polish_Artist's_Mission_to_Liberate_Soviet_Ukraine

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Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine is a 2005 book by Timothy Snyder. It focuses on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Its conclusions consist partly of new research based on the archives of the Polish military.[9]

Awards

  • Pro Historia Polonorum, for best book on Polish history by a foreign scholar in the previous five years, 2008.[10]
  • Shortlisted as one of three books for the main Polityka history prize, 2009.[10]
  • Shortlisted as one of nine books for the Moczarski history prize, 2009.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Brown, Kate (1 December 2006). "Timothy Snyder. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 347. $35.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern". The American Historical Review. 111 (5): 1629–1630. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.5.1629. ISSN 0002-8762.
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    Ost, David (1 August 2007). "The Personal and the Political in Interwar Poland: Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. 347 pp. ISBN 0-300-10670-X. Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 456 pp. ISBN 0-300-11092-8". East European Politics and Societies. 21 (3): 520–533. doi:10.1177/0888325406303790. ISSN 0888-3254. S2CID 220750267.
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    Marples, David R. (2007). "Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. By Timothy Snyder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxiii, 347 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $35.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 66 (1): 123–124. doi:10.2307/20060161. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 20060161. S2CID 164319184.
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    AndersRudling, Per (1 January 2007). "Timothy Snyder. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. xxiii, 347 pp. $35.00". Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 41 (4): 435–437. doi:10.1163/221023907X00482. ISSN 2210-2396.
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    Jolluck, Katherine R. (1 June 2008). "Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (2): 459–460. doi:10.1086/591592. ISSN 0022-2801.
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    Statiev, Alexander (1 July 2007). "Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". Journal of Cold War Studies. 9 (3): 165–168. doi:10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.165. ISSN 1520-3972. JSTOR 26926057. S2CID 57570728.
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    Mazower, Mark (11 May 2006). "Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (review)". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 7 (2): 379–381. doi:10.1353/kri.2006.0022. ISSN 1538-5000. S2CID 159926680.
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    BORZĘCKI, JERZY (2006). "Review of Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". The Polish Review. 51 (3/4): 400–402. ISSN 0032-2970. JSTOR 25779644.
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    Timothy Snyder (29 October 2022). "The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 14. Interwar Poland's Ukrainians". YouTube. Yale University. 42:58-43:33. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023.
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    "Books by Timothy Snyder - Timothy Snyder". timothysnyder.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.


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