Today Norman DAVIES resides in Oxford where he lives and writes. Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. From 2000-2006 he was a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and in 2006-2008 a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia, McGill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide, Australia’s National University (ANU) and Cambridge. George (CMG) in 2001 for 'services to history'. Norman DAVIES is a regular broadcaster and commentator. He is the author of the prize-winning history of Poland, 'God's Playground' (1981) and the Number 1 bestseller in Britain 'Europe: A History' (OUP, 1996) which was chosen ten times as Book of the Year and acclaimed as 'the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken'. Professor DAVIES has been awarded the Companion of the Order of St.

Professor Norman DAVIES is an English historian, known for his excellent publications on the history of Europe and the British Isles. The lecture was entitled 'The Study and Teaching of History in Europe'. The book was well-received, notably by Sir Michael Howard, launching my academic career and convincing me that I could write.On 21 November 2011, Professor Norman DAVIES, gave a lecture at Natolin as part of the EP Geremek European Civilization Chair lecture series. It disproved the widely held belief that Poland started the war by attacking Soviet Russia it revealed the Bolsheviks’ plans for spreading their Revolution to Germany and beyond and by using both Russian and Polish sources it showed that this little known conflict was not just a regional skirmish, but a determined attempt to provoke a continental conflagration. In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920. ' White Eagle, Red Star' (1972) tells the story of the war in 1919-20 between the newly independent Republic of Poland and the Bolshevik-led Soviet Republics.(The USSR was not yet born). The condition of the fellowship was that a publishable typescript should be produced within twelve months. He recommended me for a research fellowship at St.

D’s are for second-raters 'Taylor said, 'you, Norman, should write a book'. and the author of several books on Polish and European history, including Gods Playground, White Eagle, Red Star, The Isles, Europe, and Microcosm. It came into being suddenly, following the advice of my former Oxford tutor, AJP Taylor 'Ph. White Eagle, Red Star : This volume gives a full account of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, when the Red Army was crushed by a devasting Polish attack.

Many authors are specially fond of their first book, as parents are of their first child, and I am no exception. The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and the Miracle on the Vistula

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