Poland of the transformed wheelwrights. A collection of articles and reports by contributors to the London Chronicle [London 1968].

London 1968; B. Swiderski. 14x21.5 cm, pp. 578, black and white photographs in the text, soft cover with wrapper. Very good condition (minimal rubbing of the wrapper).

"This book is (...) an account of people who viewed the Country with their own unprejudiced eyes, moved freely around the Country, looked into the nooks and crannies of its life, admired its post-war achievements, but also noticed its shortcomings, in which no one prevented them and about which no one forbade them to speak and write. With the exception of the two youngest editorial colleagues, Boleslaw Sulik and Boguslaw Maciejewski, all members of the "Chronicle" editorial team remember Poland before World War II. These all were pleasantly surprised by what they found in the Country today. The Poland of today, the fruit of the hard work of the government and society during, now 24 years, does not resemble what we abandoned in the tragic September 1939. Rebuilt from the ruins of war, rebuilt socially, it has a magnificent industry, a gigantically expanded education available to all regardless of social background, a science that is triumphant on a global scale in many fields, an art that arouses interest on all continents." [excerpted word from the publisher]