Poland Summary

The book Poland written by James A. Michener, starts off with angry farmers who want to end the injustice they are being bombarded with. The government of Poland recognizes that this is dangerous, so it sends a representative to help diffuse the situation. It turns out that the leader of this uprising and the representative share a common ancestor. Buk’s great- grandmother and Bukowski’s grandmother are the same person. After this is established the farmers articulate the weak points in the state’s central planning system. After hours of this going on, they take a break. The farmers decide to bring in the Bishop of Gorka. The government does not want this so they end up suspending the rest of the meeting for an additional four weeks. The story …show more content…
During their time, the Tartars had a need to destroy and conquer many places. They just so happened to pick the village where the peasants from the familt Buk lived. Luckily, Jan, part of the family Buk, was able to warn the village before the Tartars could attack. Most of the village was destroyed, but Jan and his father were able to survive the attack, but they did not know what happened to their female relatives. Unfortunately, they were forced to serve under Zygmunt. One day while working in the fields, they discovered that the mother and sister of Jan, escaped from Vuldai, the Tartar, and were able to return to Bukowo. While they made it out alive, they were treated horribly under the submission of Vuldai. Due to heinous acts they both had become pregnant by the Tartars. They had nothing but the two horses they arrived in. Zygmunt, a selfish man, thought he deserved more horses, as it reflects rank, and he was rewarded the horse, but the smaller horse was given to Janko. Due to the repetitive attacks of the Tatars, Bukowo was rebuilt as it would be every time it was destroyed, which required many people thus allowing a mix of Polish and Tartar