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Finding Poland: from Tavistock to Hruzdowa and back again

This 120,000-word monograph integrates research in British archives, a privately held family correspondence, and work in oral history. It synthesises much recent literature on interwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, problematizing Polish nationalist assumptions about its former eastern borderlands and offering an original account of the Soviet deportations of 1940. Utilizing extensive India Office materials, it gives an original account of Britain’s treatment of Polish refugees during and after the Second World War, contributing to the literature on displaced people. It contributes to contemporary debates about Polish identity and memory, and Polish-Jewish relations, and has been translated into Polish.