He was elected Fell of the British Academy in 1997. A quarter of a century in London was supplemented by regular assignments abroad at Columbia, Mc Gill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide and the ANU in Canberra. Davies' academic career centred on the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, where he was successively Lecturer, Reader and Professor. He found his way into radio and later TV via the BBC World Service to which he made contributions relative to current affairs in the Soviet Block. He emerged as a historical author with White Eagle, Red Star (1972) which was written during a research fellowship at St. Davies began his career as a school teacher. Norman Davies is an accomplished historian and academic. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.Mr. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies shows how this war was a pivotal event in the course of European history. Since known as 'The Miracle of the Vistula,' it remains one of the most crucial conflicts of the Western world. In 'White Eagle, Red Star, ' distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army-sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe -was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available and shows how the war was far more than an 'episode' in East European affairs, but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more. In White Eagle, Red Star, Professor Norman Davies gives a full account of the war, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to 'water our horses on the Rhine' - was crushed by a devastating Polish attack, since known as the 'miracle on the Vistula'.

As far as Soviet history is concerned, the war with Poland represents the first occasion when the Red Army set out to revolutionise the whole of Europe - for the Poles, it was an occasion when they finally justified their claim to independent statehood. In many English history books, it appears under the erroneous title of the 'Russo-Polish War', and is treated as just one spot in the rash of border conflicts which broke out all over Europe at this time. A neglected event in history, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was not the final episode in the wars of intervention, but an independent enterprise on the Polish side with minimal support from the Entente Powers.

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