Some ideas for English language literature on Krakow, Poland and the Poles...
Krakow Guide Books
- Kraków - The Guide produced by Pascal
- Travellers Krakow by Scott Simpson
- Visible Cities Krakow (Visible Cities Guidebook series) by Dorota Wasik and Gemma Roper-Evans
- Guide to Krakow by Jan Adamczewski
Polish Culture/Art/Traditions
- Cracow: A treasury of Polish culture and art by Michał Rozek
- An Outline History of Polish Culture by Bolesław Klimaszewski
- The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture by Adam Zamoyski. One of the best accounts of Polish culture from its beginnings up until the recent past.
- Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, Mary Anne Knab
History
- God's Playground: A History of Poland by Norman Davies
This two-volume work is probably the best account of Polish history ever published.
- The Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland by Norman Davies
A more concise account with greater emphasis on the twentieth century
- Witnesses: Life in Occupied Krakow by Miriam Peleg-Marianska and Mordecai Peleg
- The Krakow Ghetto and the Plaszow Camp Remembered by Malvina Graf
- John Paul II: A man from Krakow by George Blazynski
- Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939 by Sean Martin, 2004
- Krakow Ghetto Notebook by Daniel Kempen, 2004
- The Jews in Polish Culture by Aleksander Hertz