Diary 1954

by Leopold Tyrmand

Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland's Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply felt anti-Communist views. Diary 1954--written after the independent weekly paper that employed him was closed for refusing to mourn Stalin's death--is an account of daily life in Communist Poland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129515
• ISBN13: 9780810129511
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"