Ashes and Diamonds

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by Jerzy Andrzejewski and David J. Welsh,

Translated by D. J. Welsh

Northwestern University Press

Due/Published March 1997, 239 pages, paper

ISBN 0810115190

Ashes and Diamonds takes us to a provincial town in the spring of 1945. The nation is in the throes of transformation to People's Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all these converge on the town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.