It was a relief when I finally did open Poland to find people and conversation waiting for me in the first few pages. I work on it for days and was never rewarded with any characters or conversation, ugh! As I recall, the book starts with the formation of the geographic land mass that is the Iberian peninsula. It remains to this day, one of the few books I’ve started and not finished. I could not for the life if me get into the book. I’d been leery of Michener’s writing ever since a senior officer in Ed’s squadron recommended Michener’s Iberia to me when we arrived in Spain in the early 1980s. I checked out Iberia from the base library and renewed it a couple of times. I must admit that I didn’t start it right away. As I was leaving Arizona to move to Poland, a friend gave me two books about my new home, one was James Michener’s historical novel, Poland.
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