By William Richard Morfill. Here is the story of the nation of Poland, written in the days before the poison of political correctness destroyed simple factual accounts of the history of our people.
This is the remarkable history of a nation whose fortunes have shaped the course of Central and Eastern Europe for more than a thousand years. Written by one of Britain’s foremost nineteenth-century Slavonic scholars, the book presents a comprehensive account of Poland’s rise, triumphs, and struggles with clarity and historical insight.
Beginning with the earliest Polish rulers and the formation of the medieval kingdom, Morfill follows the country’s emergence as a major European power under the Piast and Jagiellonian dynasties. The narrative explores Poland’s wars with the Teutonic Knights, its union with Lithuania, the flowering of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the reigns of celebrated monarchs such as Bolesław the Brave, Casimir the Great, and John III Sobieski.
The book also examines the political and military challenges that eventually led to Poland’s partitions, while highlighting the resilience of the Polish people and the enduring strength of their national identity. Morfill combines engaging storytelling with careful scholarship, explaining the personalities, institutions, and events that shaped one of Europe’s most influential kingdoms.
Told in the classic, clear, and unambiguous style of historians unfettered by the demands to be “politically correct,” these classic works are a treasure trove of facts and history which will not be found in the modern “court historian” version which have been censored by the powers-that-be.
First written in 1893, available now in this authentic reproduction, with 76 illustrations.
Topics: Lemberg, Brestlitovsk, the Vistula, Lithuanians, Ugro-Finns, the Lekhs, early Polish history, Mieczsylaw I, Boleslas the Brave, Przemyslaw I, Jadwiga and Jagiello, the early Jagiellos, Germans in Poland, Sigismund I, Treaty of Thorn, Casimir IV, John Albert, diet at Radom, Clement the Smith, Henry of Valois, Stephen Batory, Copernicus, Nicholas Radziwill, Duke Albert, Zborowski, Albert Laski, Sigismund III, the Uniates, the False Demetrius, Smotrycki, Polish cookery, retreat of the Turks, Sobieski, Clementina, Madame Royale, Charles XII, Augustus III, the Saxon kings, the Confederation of Bar, Zabiello, the Prussians, Kosciuzko, Stanislaus, Marie Louise, Polish literature, Queen Margaret’s Psalter, Kromer, Kilinski, Rzewuski, Fredro, Szajnocha, Kraszewski, Ujejski, the Burghers, the peasants, Courland, Polish dress, the nobility, the Polish kings, Szlachta, the Jews, the Kmetons, geneaologies, more. Covers up to the 1800s. Hundreds of other important tidbits, extensive author biography.
Softcover, 450 pages, detailed genealogies—550 to 815, #803
