‘Nimitz House’ on San Francisco Bay
Hidden beneath the San Francisco Bay Bridge sits a three-story mansion known as the Nimitz House. It was the final home of Admiral Chester W.Read More
What Are America’s Strategic Interests in Ukraine?
Is Ukraine being “carved up” by the US and Russia? What are America’s strategic interests in the current negotiations taking place with the Russian FederationRead More
Storm Clouds Over Poland 🇵🇱
An anti-government protest in Warsaw, Poland, January 11, 2024. The yellow sign reads “German Money, Soviet Methods.” Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/Shutterstock 80 years after the apocalypseRead More
1 responseThe Warsaw Rising, 1944: Perception and Reality
Seventy-nine years ago Warsaw’s historic Old Town was being leveled by Stuka dive bombers, artillery and mortars. After an unsuccessful attempt to break through theRead More
79 years ago, Warsaw was in flames
On 1 August 1944, one of the largest urban battles of World War II began.The Warsaw Uprising was the attempt by the Home Army (theRead More
The (Amazing) Animated History of Poland
Originally produced for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, I just discovered that an HD version of the “Animated History of Poland” was released inRead More
“The First Transport” Exhibition in Warsaw by Wojciech Korkuć
“On June 14, 1940, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles to the recently established Auschwitz concentration camp. The transported group consisted mainly ofRead More
Article in Defining Ideas and IWP Talk
Following the publication of 485 Days at Majdanek in February, the article I co-wrote with Professor Norman Naimark appeared in the Hoover Institution’s Defining IdeasRead More
485 Days at Majdanek, Surviving a German Concentration Camp
It was my privilege to translate Jerzy Kwiatkowski’s memoir from Polish to English. Recently published by the Hoover Press, 485 Days at Majdanek is aRead More
2 responsesMedal of the 75th Anniversary of Jan Karski’s Mission for Dr. Maciej Siekierski
Dr. Maciej Siekierski, Curator of the European Collections of the Hoover Institution[1]has been awarded the Medal of the 75th Anniversary of Jan Karski’s mission. ThisRead More
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