Peter D. Stachura is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Stirling

University of Stirling

The University of Stirling is a campus university founded by Royal charter in 1967, on the Airthrey Estate in Stirling, Scotland.-History and campus development:...

 and Director of its externally funded Centre for Research in Polish History established in May 2000. Stachura has published extensively on the subject of modern history of Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and its people

Poles

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, as well as, on the shaping of the ‎Nazi German

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 state and the European Theatre

European Theatre of World War II

The European Theatre of World War II was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe from Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 until the end of the war with the German unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

.

Peter Stachura graduated from the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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, the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 and the University of Stirling, where he became a Doctor of Letters in 1994. His main focus is on Polish history till 1945 and the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

. He is the Director of Centre for Research in Polish History financed by the M B Grabowski Fund and Polonia Aid Foundation Trust with awards an annual prizes offered to students.

Selected works by Peter D. Stachura

• The Shaping of the Nazi state‎, 1978 - 304 pages
• The German youth movement, 1900-1945: an interpretative and documentary history, 1981 - 246 pages
• Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany‎, 1986 - 230 pages
• Themes of modern Polish history : proceedings of a symposium, 1992 - 92 pages
• Poland Between the Wars, 1998 - 153 pages, ISBN 0312216807
• Poland in the Twentieth Century, 1999
• Perspectives on Polish History, 2001
• The Poles in Britain, 1940-2000: from betrayal to assimilation, 2004 - 113 pages
• Poland, 1918-1945: an interpretive and documentary history of the Second Republic, 2004 - 221 pages, ISBN 0415343577 http://books.google.ca/books?id=Nr5uqSHsGEAC&dq=%22Peter+D.+Stachura%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s