The Gordian Knot
2021 Translated Book Award
The Gordian Knot: The Second Polish-Ukrainian War. 1942-1947
Translated from the original Ukrainian into English
Volodymyr Viatrovych – Author
Ksenia Maryniak – Translator
Published by Horner Press – Publisher
“In recognition of this book’s advancement of new research and analysis, from a Ukrainian viewpoint, of a historically sensitive period in Ukrainian-Polish relations, which will no doubt help generate future academic discussions on this topic.”
Translated from the second edition of the original work published in 2012 by the University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishing House, the 2020 translation attempts to provide a broader historical context to a wider Polish-Ukrainian civil war that was not rooted in one event, namely 1943 Volhynia, but rather began in 1942 and ended in 1947.