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“peter obst”

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  • The Pulaski Reader

    by Peter Obst ...
    Centered around Konstanty Gaszynski's book from the mid-nineteenth century, "The Remainder of the Memoires About Casimir Pulaski by Maciej Rogowski" and surrounded by articles from Polish and American scholars, "The Pulaski Reader" is a great source to find out about this military leader who was famous in Poland and Revolutionary America. In addition to leading a revolt against Russia in the Bar ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jozef Pilsudski

    Hero of Poland

    by Antoni Lenkiewicz ...
    Translated by Peter Obst ...
    Józef Piłsudski (1868-1935) is the heroic and controversial leader of the reconstituted Poland that emerged out of World War I. He was a revolutionary who defeated the Red Armies outside of Warsaw and although he never held an elected office, he placed his personal stamp on the development of the Pre-War Polish Republic. In some ways he was a visionary for the era (A Federation of Eastern States, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories

    by Henryk Sienkiewicz ...
    Translated by Peter J. Obst ...
    This volume includes 3 new translations of stories by acclaimed Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz: "A Comedy of Errors," "The Authoresses," and "The Third One."Translator Peter J. Obst is a lecturer at LaSalle University and a researcher for The Poles in America Foundation, established by historian Edward Pinkowski. He received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1977) and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Mother Night

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  • The End of Days

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    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

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  • Prague

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  • The Artificial Silk Girl

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    by Irmgard Keun ...
    Translated by Kathie von Ankum ...
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  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

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    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
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  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

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