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File Size: 13186 KB
Print Length: 700 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812986709
Publisher: The Dial Press; Reprint edition (March 18, 2014)
Publication Date: March 18, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00H6JHM6I
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My dad was Polish. My grandfather was born in Lublin, Poland. My grandmother, also Polish, was born in Austria. Over the years, I wondered because I was also told that my grandfather was born in Russia. After reading this novel, I now know that actually made sense. This novel was an eye opener to say the least. James Michener has an uncanny ability to present all this historical information in a great novel. I was captivated and it was hard to put down. Everyone should read all of James Michener's novels. They would be great in a history class.
As a young reader I tended to be one of those people who ignored the explanations, forwards, letters from the author and so on so I could dive right into the story. Only later did I realize how much I was losing out on. I mention this because there are several pages at the beginning of this book that provide background information that will give you a good base from which to begin the story.Another consideration is that the book was originally published in 1983. Poland didn't gain it's independence from the Soviet Union until 1989, so things have definitely changed. It's possible that some people may think there is too much description at times in the story. I believe some of that feeling comes from how open the world has become. Getting information on just about any subject is as simple as accessing the web. This was certainly not the case in the early 80's when getting more information required a trip to the library. We can now not only check facts and get additional historical information but even see portraits of the people involved.From invasions by Mongols and Tatars in the early 1200's to the Soviet Union's attempts at keeping them under control in the 1980's the Polish people have resisted outside authority. One of the most surprising aspects of this story is how often an incredibly small group of powerful land (and people) owners sold out their country to foreigners thus leaving it open to invasion and division time after time. The wealthiest and most powerful nobles had nearly unimaginable power over the lives of the people they owned as well as the land, and the money to live beyond extravagantly.For all of the turmoil, Polish people were incredibly adaptable. This is a country that suffered through deadly invasions, civil unrest, revolutions, and dissolution. Sometimes led by relatively benign rulers but many times by bloodthirsty invaders who looked at Poles as being subhuman. At one point, after being divided up between three other nations, it ceased to even exist. The people of Poland chose to never give up hope that it would one day become whole and independent again. They are an amazing group of people with a history to match.The three families the story follows highlight Poland's turbulent history well. Fortune comes and goes. Some are caught up in revolution, others in war and invasion. All have to learn to adapt and some do it more successfully than others. There are people of integrity and other descendants who are repugnant. In other words, they are a mixed bag just like any other group of people who are followed through time.It's hard for me to resist books like this. Authors who thoroughly research a subject and then create characters around it must work doubly hard. They bear the responsibility (some better than others) to be as accurate as possible and at the same time must tell a story that will engage readers. The few best give you a story about fictional people you come to care about while teaching history. They take history and humanize it. James Michener was one of the greatest.
Given that this was my first Michener book, I was pretty sure I knew what to expect - a good story that spans centuries of history. And that is what I got. Oh, it's not the full history, but then again, this is not a history book. This is a fiction with historical elements carefully and thoughtfully threaded in.Framed by interactions in the present day (1981) between scions of two of the three families that Michener focuses on, the chapters of the book respectively focus on the invasion of the Tatars in the 13th century, the Battle of Grunwald in the 14th century against the Teutonic Knights, a huge time jump to the invasion of the Swedes in the 17th century, the Battle of Vienna in 1683 when the Poles (in my opinion) helped save Christendom, the era of the Partitions in the 18th century, a glimpse of Fin de Siecle Vienna in the late 19th century when Poles were without a state, the battle of Warsaw after WWI which was instrumental in saving Western Europe from the onslaught of the Soviets, and a powerful chapter taking place during the Nazi/Soviet dismemberment of Poland during WWII.The book is a great introduction for those who wish to learn more about Polish history. Based on my own surname, and due to a lack of records that were destroyed, I am pretty sure my own family was of partial Polish descent in the area occupied by Russia in the 18th century. This makes the story more personal for me. And Michener makes the characters come to life by focusing on three segments of the population - the great landowners the Lubonskis (and why were they not included in the last chapter?), the petty nobles the Bukowskis, and the peasants the Buks. However, Michener is too deterministic. By this I mean that he knows the history of these fictional characters in the future. But they don't know what will happen to their country. Still, he has them spout the future as if they all could know it perfectly. And he does this repeatedly. This gets annoying really quickly. Especially when it's wrong or unrealistic, as in the time period when the Poles conquered and burned Moscow in the early 17th century and he has the characters only a couple decades later spout how strong Russia is and how it will conquer them.Happily, some of his predictions did not come to pass given that modern day Poland, free of Russian and German and Austrian bondage, is one of the success stories of the European Union. And it has been free since 1989. Writing this in 2015, this period of Polish freedom marks the longest stretch of freedom (26 years) the Poles have enjoyed since the 18th century. Here's hoping that freedom never ends or is curtailed again.P.S. One of the eras that Michener skips is the height of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. For those interested in learning more about it, I highly recommend The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 (History of East Central Europe) The entire series about East Central Europe is worth checking out.
If you want to understand the real insanity of war, with innocent people dragged into bloody murder for profit, ethnic cleansing, systematic suppression of democratic movements by established autocrats, and the almost unbelievable history of Poland being torn apart by other countries, this is the book for you. And, at the same time, Michener brings you into each epoch of history with detailed descriptions of daily life to remind you all of this is real. There are more heroes and villains then I could have ever imagined, all living out the most glorious and disgusting aspects of the same range of human nature we see around us today. This is one of the best overviews of human frailties and disaster ever written. Have your high school kids read this book so, just maybe, they won't get dragged into the next bloody mess.
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