Norman Davies
Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939) is a British historian and writer, famous for his studies and publications on Europe, UK and Poland.
He was born in Bolton, England. He studied in Grenoble, Oxford, Perugia, Sussex and Kraków at the Jagiellonian University. In 1973 he was honoured with a PhD degree from the Jagiellonian University.
Norman Davies has lectured in many countries (USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and in most European countries). From 1971 to 1996 he worked at the London University, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, where in 1985 he became a Professor. He is currently Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
He works with the BBC as well as other British and American magazines and newspapers like The Times, The New York Review of Books and The Independent.
Norman Davies is a member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea in Salzburg and of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Kraków. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. He has received honorary doctorates from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and the University of Gdańsk. He is an honorary citizen of Lublin and Kraków.
List of publications
- Microcosm, Portrait of a Central European City, with Roger Moorhouse, (Jonathan Cape, 2002) ISBN 0224062433 (ISBN 8324001727 – Polish translation) - about the city of Wrocław
- Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw, ISBN 0670032840 - about the Warsaw Uprising
- Europe: A History, ISBN 0060974680 - the history of Europe
- God's Playground ISBN 0231053533 and ISBN 0231053517 (two tomes) - the history of Poland
- Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present, ISBN 0192801260 - about social and political inheritance of modern Poland
- The Isles: A History, ISBN 0195148312 - history of the British Isles
- Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944, ISBN 0781809010 - Poland's suffering during the WWII
- When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption, with Wesley Adamczyk, ISBN 0226004430 - about the forced exile of thousands of Poles by the Soviet government in the opening months of the WWII
- White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20, ISBN 0712606947 - an account of the Polish–Soviet War
- Lying Down With Dogs: A Personal Portrait of a Polish Exile, with Mark Zygadlo, ISBN 0953541371
- The Wawel Dragon upon the Thames, ZNAK, Kraków 2001, ISBN 8324000151
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A Polish site about Norman Davies (in Polish), includes a gallery and parts of translated text (http://www.davies.pl/)
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