Peter D. Stachura is a

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historian, writer, lecturer and essayist. He was Professor of Modern European History at the

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and Director of its Centre for Research in Polish History. He has published extensively on the subject of the modern history of

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and its people, the Polish military effort alongside the Allies, and the shaping of the

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state and the European Theatre during

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. ''Poland, 1918-1945: an interpretive and documentary history'' by Peter D. Stachura.
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Biography

Stachura was born to a Polish military

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from the

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. He graduated from the

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and completed his PhD thesis, titled ''The development and organisation of the Hitler youth, 1930-1933'', at the

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in 1971. His main focus is on Polish history before 1945, the post-war history of the Poles in Scotland, the

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, and the

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. Stachura was the Director of the Centre for Research in Polish History at the University of Stirling.

The Centre for Research in Polish History, Department of History

Bibliography

* ''The Shaping of the Nazi state'', Taylor & Francis, 1978 - 304 pages, * ''The German youth movement, 1900-1945: an interpretative and documentary history'', 1981 - 246 pages * ''Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism''. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1983. . * ''Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany'', Macmillan, 1986 - 230 pages, * ''Themes of modern Polish history : proceedings of a symposium'', 1992 - 92 pages * ''Poland Between the Wars'', 1998 - 153 pages, * ''Poland in the Twentieth Century'', St. Martin's Press, 1999, * ''Perspectives on Polish History'', University of Stirling, 2001, * ''The Poles in Britain, 1940-2000: from betrayal to assimilation'', 2004 - 113 pages, * ''Poland, 1918-1945: an interpretive and documentary history of the Second Republic'',''Poland, 1918-1945: an interpretive and documentary history of the Second Republic'' by Peter D. Stachura, Routledge
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Notes and references

External links

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