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	Norman Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles.
		Davies sued the university for breach of contract and defamation of character, but in 1989 the court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction in an academic matter.
		Davies holds a number of honorary titles and memberships, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Lublin and Gdańsk, memberships in the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea [1], and fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society [2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Davies (1258 words)

	God's Playground; A History of Poland; Norman Davies
		Davies understands and exquisitely conveys the importance of historical consciousness in Polish life....
		"Davies is the foremost historian of modern Poland.
		Norman Davies is chairman of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023105/0231053517.HTM (340 words)

	Madison Polish Heritage Club - Polish American History
		Norman Davies is the foremost historian of Poland in the English language.
		Davies was meant to have gone to the USSR as an Oxford student in the 1960s, but because of visa complications, came to Poland instead.
		Davies points out that one of the problems of the history of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 is that it has been confused with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943.
	www.phcwi-madison.org /history.htm (1744 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage - Two reviews of Norman Davies’s RISING 44 :
		Norman Davies, a fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, is the foremost historian of modern Poland.
		Davies accuses the Allies of failing in virtually every respect in August 1944, because their priorities lay elsewhere: they were obsessed with unconditional surrender, with the invasion of southern France and, in the wake of the stunningly successful victory in Normandy, with the belief that the war would end in 1944.
		Davies shows that before the German invasion of Russia, the Soviet treatment of the Poles in the territory Hitler took over was often as savage as that of the Nazis.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /Eng/July_04_Two_reviews_Norman_Davies.htm (4908 words)

	Leading Scholar, Display Help UC Remember The Warsaw Uprising
		Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Norman Davies will be speaking in Cincinnati on April 26 in an event co-sponsored by UC's history department, while the Langsam Library at UC will have on display through April 27 a large, traveling historical display on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
		Davies’ talk is jointly sponsored by the UC history department and The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of Hebrew Union College.
		Davies has devoted a lifetime of research documenting the genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by both Hitler and Stalin against Poland and its people.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=2627 (704 words)

	Sarmatian Review XVIII.1: Davies
		Davies is aware that all too often, Poles have yielded to the vision of their own history propagated by Poland's most intractable adversaries.
		Davies draws on the theorists of propaganda to draft a concise and useful 'five rules of propaganda' illustrating the Soviet's mastery of its methods and the naivete and cynicism of its western dupes (500-501).
		Davies depicts its history in terms of a pathological addiction to territorial conquest, born of gross inefficiency and traditional militarism.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/198/davies.html (1292 words)

	Rising '44: 'The Battle for Warsaw', by Norman Davies
		Norman Davies does not address the question of whether it was right or wrong to launch the rising.
		Davies is at his best when he focuses on issues such as everyday life during the uprising and the terrible deprivations of life in a city that was slowly being turned to rubble.
		Davies is scrupulously detailed and even-handed in his depiction of the cultural, political, technical and military complexities of the situation.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /180704.html (9752 words)

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		Davies, Norman de Garis, The tomb of Puyemrê at Thebes, N°2 et N°3, Robb de Peyster tytus memorial series,The Metropolitan museum of art, New York, 1922 et 1923.
		Davies, Norman de Garis, The tombs of two officials of Tuthmosis the fourth {N°75 and N°90}, The theban tombs series, Egypte exploration society, London, 1923.
		Davies, Norman de Garis, The tomb of the vezier Ramose, Mond excavations at Thebes, Egypt exploration society, London, 1941.
	2terres.hautesavoie.net /degypte/texte/davieseg.htm (557 words)

	Deconstructing History Review of The Isles by Norman Davies (Macmillan, 1999, ISBN 033376370X, £30)
		At one moment Davies is claiming to be reconstructing how “Ancient man” would have seen the world; the next he refers to the English Channel as the “Sleeve”.
		Davies writes the revolutions out of history and with them any sense of the nation-state as an essentially democratic state.
		Davies gives us deconstructionism shorn of all its intellectual pretensions and revealed for what it is—a wholesale rejection of reason and human progress.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/davi-25o.shtml (2564 words)

	Rising '44 by Norman Davies: Reviews
		Davies starts with a dedication that catches the complexity of the tragedy he describes so brilliantly: "To Warsaw and to all who fight tyranny regardless." In that last hopeless word lies the essence of his story.
		Davies uses many newly available sources, and the result is a stirring, emotionally draining saga of heroism, betrayal, and tragedy as the Nazis slowly squeezed the life out of the rebellion while reducing Warsaw to rubble.
		Davies writes as an impassioned partisan, determined to force the world to remember the betrayal of the Poles.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/daviesnorman/rising44 (596 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I, The Origins to 1795 - Norman Davies ...
		Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country´s rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.
		Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation.
		Norman Davies is chair of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=lp2HoSDCrv&isbn=0231128177&itm=2 (422 words)

	Amazon.de: The Isles: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norman Davies, author of the critically acclaimed `Europe: A History', has put together an interesting history of the British Isles, trying to portray them as a group that, while lacking unity, should be at least addressed as a unified group, always influencing and co-dependent upon each other.
		Davies proceeds to explore the history of the British Isles under the Romans, during the Germanic invasion/migrations, during the Norse/Viking invasions/raids, during the Norman conquest, and then to the period of English hegemony.
		Davies tackles difficult questions and problems that are not typical of standard histories, especially where speculation into the possible future of the British Isles is concerned.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/033376370X (1776 words)

	Amazon.com: Europe : A History: Books: Norman Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Davies, who has written two books on Polish history, also gives the eastern part of Europe its due coverage, unlike many of his predecessors, and manages to include commoners and the persecuted or ignored in his story along with the mighty and the royal.
		Davies clearly states his premise in the Introduction.....his desire to provide a single volumn survey that provides an evenly magnified view from both the number of pages per year and the geographic/ethnic perspective of the writer.
		Davies is a Poland specialist and he uses his knowledge of the country's intricacies to illuminate the experience of the whole continent; as indeed he does also with his native Oxfordshire.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060974680?v=glance (2378 words)

	Amazon.com: Rising '44 : The Battle for Warsaw: Books: Norman Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Davies (Europe: A History) offers an enthralling, impressionistic account of the uprising, highlighted by vivid reminiscences from Polish and German participants, but the bulk of this sprawling book is concerned with the political background and aftermath.
		Davies is persuasive on many points, and his somewhat romantic defense of the rising—which failed in its objectives and triggered the German massacre of tens of thousands of civilians—amply conveys its heroism, but may not convince readers of its wisdom.
		Davies tells us about the problems between the various Polish organizations too, such as the conflict between the Communist-backed organization that is just waiting for the Soviets to take over the country so they can be instated as the new government, and the Government in Exile that is based out of London.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670032840?v=glance (3626 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Critics \| The Isles by Norman Davies
		Take Norman Davies's The Isles (Macmillan, £30), a 1,200-page romp through the whole of British history, which has produced a remarkable divergence of opinion.
		Davies is a distinguished historian of east and central Europe.
		It may not matter too much that steam locomotives disappeared from British Railways in the 1960s rather than the 1970s, as Davies writes; or that Gaelic song festivals were a feature of Scottish life long before he seems to think.
	books.guardian.co.uk /critics/reviews/0,,121302,00.html (943 words)

	Alibris: N Davies
		Davies lyrical text follows the mysterious life of a loggerhead turtle as she is born, grows, journeys, and comes ashore to start a new cycle of life for her baby turtles.
		Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history.
		As Norman Davies notes in his foreword to this edition, "Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of one ethnic community in occupied Poland without referring to the fates of others.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Davies,N (1061 words)

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		Professor Davies took it upon himself to correct the prejudices he perceived, however, and the result is this book: the story of Europe from Indo-European tribes to the present, in which the many strands of European history—not only English and French but Slavic, Irish, Spanish, Swiss, Dutch, Jewish, and Scandinavian—are at last woven together.
		Professor Davies is also adept at tracing the dissemination of ideas from their origins to the nether regions of Europe, tossing out odd bits of erudition on the way: reintegrating the history of East and West Europe also means describing the profound effect which the latter had upon the former.
		Davies himself, also in a letter to the TLS, claims that “I do not equate; I juxtapose, and sometimes invite a comparison.” Reading the capsule myself, I understood that Davies was trying to point out that ordinary people behave badly when faced with certain kinds of moral dilemmas, whatever their nationality.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/15/may97/apple.htm (2102 words)

	Norman Davies - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Image:Norman Davies.jpg Sir Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles.
		Norman Davies, "Russia, the missing link in Britain's VE Day mythology", The Times, London, May 01, 2005.
		Norman Davies, lecture, University of Cincinnati Department of History and the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Cincinnati, OH.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Norman_Davies (1212 words)

	David Pryce-Jones on Norman Davies’s Rising ’44 on National Review Online
		In three long and thorough opening chapters, Norman Davies uses British, Soviet, and Polish archives to examine the political context in which the Poles had to operate.
		A Polish priest was tied as a hostage to a German tank — an irony, as the priest was a known anti-Semite.
		Davies quotes a striking image of his about being caught between the Scarlet Plague of the Communists and the Black Death of the Nazis.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/prycejones200407131547.asp (1282 words)

	The Richmond Review - book reviews - Microcosm author Norman Davies, Roger Moorhouse - C.J. Schüler
		So I was pleased that Norman Davies, the author of Europe, The Isles, and the acclaimed two-volume history of Poland, God's Playground, had chosen the city as the subject of this new work — and as a microcosm of Central Europe as a whole.
		The idea, Davies explains in a foreword, was suggested to him by the City President of Wroclaw, Bogdan Zdrojewski, who added that an objective history of the city could never be written by either a Pole or a German.
		Despite the substantial reconstruction still needed to repair decades of isolation and neglect in Wroclaw, Davies and Moorhouse conclude their history on an upbeat note at the turn of the millennium, with the island city reconnected, as it were, to the European mainland, and its historic centre restored to much of its former beauty.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/microcosm.html (2380 words)

	New Statesman (1996): The hunted, not the hunters. (historian Norman Davies)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Davies is a widely-recognized historian in the UK but his views on Jewish matters have raised concerns among some of his colleagues because of their alleged unsympathetic tone.
		This appears to be the case in an article Davies wrote for the May 1, 1998 issue of the New Statesman magazine.
		Norman Davies is wrong in re-evaluating the Holocaust
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20825053&refid=holomed_1 (199 words)

	Norman Davies Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Largely sidelined in the history books and often confused with Ghetto Uprising of 1943, the Warsaw Rising was a pivotal moment both in the outcome of the Second World War and in the origins of the Cold War.
		In this remarkable book, which uses survivors' memoirs to complement the main text, Norman Davies brings it vividly and movingly to life.
		NORMAN DAVIES is a British historian and writer, famous for his works on Europe, the
	www.columbia.edu /cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/normandavies.html (380 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw; by Norman Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the publisher Norman Davies is Britain's bestselling author of Europe: A History and The Isles: A History, as well as the definitive history of Poland, God's Playground, and several books on European history.
		Davies is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of Sussex.
		From the publisher Norman Davies is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Professor Emeritus of London University.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0670032840 (468 words)

	1996/12/10 - H. Norman Davies, Jr. Joins Hawaiian Airlines As Safety V.P. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Davies, age 60, an aviation safety inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration will officially join Hawaiian on Jan. 13, 1997.
		In his new position, Davies will oversee and coordinate all of Hawaiian's efforts related to safety and security.
		Hawaiian Airlines, the nation's 12th largest airlines, provides daily service between Hawaii and five Western U.S. gateway cities (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland) using a fleet of eight 304-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide-body jet aircraft.
	www.hawaiianair.com /about/corporate/newsrelease/1996/section_52.asp (237 words)

	The IEE Norman Davies Memorial Lecture 2004: T5 - An Engineer's Perspective - The IEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norman Davies, who worked for many years with the Civil Aviation Authority, was a prominent and very active member during the 1970's and 1980's in the affairs of the IEE London Area.
		He was for many years Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the London Area Committee, and then Honorary Secretary of the London Centre, of which he was a founder member.
		The Institution is a not for profit organisation, registered as a charity in the UK.
	www.iee.org /oncomms/pn/aerospace/normandavies.cfm (488 words)

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