Richard C. Lukas
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Richard C. Lukas is a noted American historian and author of numerous books and articles on Polish history and Polish-Jewish relations.
After earning a Ph.D. from Florida State University he served as a Research Consultant at the United States Air Force Historical Archives before joining Tennessee Technological University were he taught for 20 years. Until his retirement in 1995, he was adjunct professor of history at the University of South Florida, Ft. Myers Campus.
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[edit] Awards and Distinctions
- Doctor of Humane Letters by Alliance College
- Kosciuszko Foundation's Joseph B. Slotkowski Publication Fund Achievement Award
- National History Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Polonia Restituta award from the Government of Poland (1988)
- Janusz Korczak Literary Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (1994)
[edit] Publications
- Air Force Aspect, of American Aid to the Soviet Union: The Crucial Years 1941-1942 (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Florida State University), 1963
- The Merchandising of the Holocaust, Catalyst, October 1997
- Of Stereotypes and Heros, Catalyst July-August 2002
- Why Do We Allow Non-Jewish Victims to be Forgotten?
[edit] Books
- Eagles East: The Army Air Forces and the Soviet Union, 1941-1945, Univ Press of Florida, 1970, ISBN 0-8130-0428-4.
- From Metternich to the Beatles, Mentor, 1973, ISBN 0-451-61191-8.
- The Strange Allies, the United States and Poland, 1941-1945, University of Tennessee Press, 1978, ISBN 0-87049-229-2.
- Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II, University Press of Kentucky, 1982, ISBN 0-8131-1460-8.
- Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust, University Press of Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-8131-1692-9.
- Forgotten Holocaust, Hippocrene Books, 2nd revised ed., 2001, ISBN 0-7818-0901-0.
- Did the Children Cry: Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945, Hippocrene Books, 2001, ISBN 0-7818-0870-7.
- Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation, University Press of Kansas, 2004, ISBN 0-7006-1350-1.
[edit] External links
- Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of the World War II Book review.
- Forgotten Survivors. Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation. The Sarmatian Review, Jan. 2006 Book review.
