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- ↑ Kemp-Welch, A. (1986). "Review of Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland". The Slavonic and East European Review. 64 (1): 148–150. ISSN 0037-6795.
- ↑ BÓBR-TYLINGO, STANISŁAW (1985). Davies, Norman (ed.). "AN ENGLISH HISTORY OF POLAND". The Polish Review. 30 (3): 277–282. ISSN 0032-2970.
- ↑ Michel, Patrick (1989). "Review of Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland. (En langue française: Histoire de la Pologne)". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 34 (67.2): 257–258. ISSN 0335-5985.
- ↑ Hoensch, Jörg K. (1985). "Review of Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland". Historische Zeitschrift. 241 (1): 130–131. ISSN 0018-2613.
- ↑ Lewitter, L. R. “Norman Davies. Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. Xxi, 511.” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 1: Poles and Jews: Renewing the Dialogue, edited by ANTONY POLONSKY, Liverpool University Press, 2004, pp. 336–37.
- ↑ Butterwick, Richard (2003). "Review of Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present". The Historian. 65 (5): 1223–1224. ISSN 0018-2370.
- ↑ Nagorski, Zygmunt (1984-12-23). "MORAL VICTORIES OF A LONELY NATION". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-11-25.
