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Battle of Kury¿ówka

Robert Service (Historian)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Professor Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian of Russia. He is Professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. Service spent his undergraduate years at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Russian and classical Greek. He went to Essex and Leningrad universities for his postgraduate work, and taught at Keele and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, which later joined University College London, before joining Oxford University in 1998, where he is currently Professor of Russian History.

Baptism of Poland

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Baptism of Poland was the event in 966 that signified the beginning of the Christianization of Poland, commencing with the baptism of Mieszko I, who was the first ruler of the Polish state. The next significant step in Poland's adoption of Christianity was the establishment of various ecclesiastical organs in the country during the 10th and 11th centuries. This included the building of cathedrals and the appointment of clergy. This date should not be confused as the independence day of Poland.

Norman Davies

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA (born 8 June 1939 to Richard and Elizabeth Davies in Bolton, Lancashire) is a leading British historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe, and the United Kingdom. Davies studied in Grenoble, France (1957-1958). He was a disciple of A. J. P. Taylor at Magdalen College, Oxford where he earned a B.A. (history, with honours) in 1962. He earned an M.A. (1966) at University of Sussex. He studied in Perugia, Italy. He intended to study for a PhD in the Soviet Union, but was denied an entry visa. Instead, he went to Kraków to study at the Jagiellonian University and do research on the Polish-Soviet War. As this war was denied in the official communist Polish historiography of that time, he was obliged to change the title of his dissertation to The British Foreign Policy towards Poland, 1919-20. After obtaining a Ph.D. (1968) in Kraków, the English text appeared under the title White Eagle, Red Star. The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 in 1972.

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George II (Penguin Monarchs)

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.

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