The work of Alicia Dybkovskaya, Malgorzata and Jan Zharyn introduces the history of Poland for many centuries - from the times of bygone, legendary to the present day. The historical panorama inscribed on the pages of this book reproduces only the contours of events. Indeed, in one small volume it is simply impossible to give an exhaustive description of the rich history of the Poles, and even more so to show it against the wide background of world history. The authors, by necessity, limited themselves only to mentioning the most important problems from the past of Europe and briefly touched on the history of their neighbors, closely intertwined with the fate of Poland.