| Author | Timothy Snyder |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | New Haven and London: Yale University Press |
| Publication date | November 28, 2005 |
| Publication place |  United States |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | 978-0-300-12599-3 |
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine is a 2005 book by Timothy Snyder. It focuses on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski. Its conclusions consist partly of new research based on the archives of the Polish military.
Awards
- Pro Historia Polonorum, for best book on Polish history by a foreign scholar in the previous five years, 2008.
- Shortlisted as one of three books for the main Polityka history prize, 2009.
- Shortlisted as one of nine books for the Moczarski history prize, 2009.
References
- Brown, Kate (1 December 2006). "Timothy Snyder. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 347. $35.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern". The American Historical Review. 111 (5): 1629–1630. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.5.1629. ISSN 0002-8762.
- Ost, David (1 August 2007). "The Personal and the Political in Interwar Poland: Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. 347 pp. ISBN 0-300-10670-X. Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 456 pp. ISBN 0-300-11092-8". East European Politics and Societies. 21 (3): 520–533. doi:10.1177/0888325406303790. ISSN 0888-3254. S2CID 220750267.
- Marples, David R. (2007). "Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. By Timothy Snyder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxiii, 347 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $35.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 66 (1): 123–124. doi:10.2307/20060161. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 20060161. S2CID 164319184.
- AndersRudling, Per (1 January 2007). "Timothy Snyder. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. xxiii, 347 pp. $35.00". Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 41 (4): 435–437. doi:10.1163/221023907X00482. ISSN 2210-2396.
- Jolluck, Katherine R. (1 June 2008). "Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (2): 459–460. doi:10.1086/591592. ISSN 0022-2801.
- Statiev, Alexander (1 July 2007). "Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". Journal of Cold War Studies. 9 (3): 165–168. doi:10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.165. ISSN 1520-3972. JSTOR 26926057. S2CID 57570728.
- Mazower, Mark (11 May 2006). "Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (review)". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 7 (2): 379–381. doi:10.1353/kri.2006.0022. ISSN 1538-5000. S2CID 159926680.
- BORZĘCKI, JERZY (2006). "Review of Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine". The Polish Review. 51 (3/4): 400–402. ISSN 0032-2970. JSTOR 25779644.
- Timothy Snyder (29 October 2022). "The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 14. Interwar Poland's Ukrainians". YouTube. Yale University. 42:58-43:33. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023.
- ^ "Books by Timothy Snyder - Timothy Snyder". timothysnyder.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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