The Polish Biographical Dictionary is a compact English–language dictionary of Polish biography, authored by Stanley S. Sokol and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers in 1992. It features nearly 900 biographies of important Poles since Duke Mieszko I in the 10th century.
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