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Warsaw

(Poland)

Warsaw has shaken the dust from its hair and has slicked it to impress.

Emerging like a phoenix from the ashes of WWII, Warsaw is essentially a postwar city. Its handful of historic precincts have been meticulously reconstructed, but most of its urban landscape is modern, from the dull products of the Stalin era to more creative efforts of recent years.

A decade after the fall of communism, Warsaw has turned into a thrilling, busy city swiftly catching up with the West. It's Poland's most cosmopolitan, dynamic and progressive urban centre, dotted with luxury hotels, elegant shops and a diverse range of services.

Books

	The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture (Adam Zamoyski)

	One of the best accounts of the culture of Poland from its birth to the recent past. Fully illustrated and exquisitely written, this is an excellent introduction to the subject.

	Solaris (StanisÅ‚aw Lem)

	Lem wrote this science fiction novel in 1961. Like all the best SF, the story uses its futuristic setting to explore what it is to be human - in this case the impossibility of truly knowing what is going on in someone else's mind.

	A Minor Apocalypse (Tadeusz Konwicki)

	The hero of this 1979 novel by Konwicki is asked to burn himself alive in front of the Communist Party headquarters. The novel follows him around Warsaw as he debates whether to go through with this act of self-destructive protest.