The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska

An award-winning (2021 "IPPY" Independent Publishers bronze medal nonfiction European History) literary masterpiece that waited over 200 years to be discovered! This unique and inspiring diary is a first-hand account by a refreshingly naïve young aristocrat involuntarily caught up in the brutal armed invasion of her beloved homeland, Poland. Replete with historical and cultural facts, it amazingly reads like a mystery novel.

Countess Anna and her writings miraculously survived fires, blizzards, murderous pillaging, imprisonment, brutality, and narrow escapes from death. Her unprecedented descriptions of people from all social classes, as well as her emotions concerning love, captivate and enchant.

This intimate narrative cries through to generations beyond,disclosing such vital current issues as rape victimization, unplanned pregnancy, social class injustices, religioius differences, constraining tradditions, assaults on women, forced confinement, war, betrayal... thus linking that bygone era with life today.

Our fascinating heroine also can't resist peeking into and secretly copying down portions of her lascivious cousin Sophia's diary describing her wanton sexual adventures. Both Anna and Sophia, as well as the other unforgettable characters, cope quite diversely with the final full capitulation of their nation, Europe's first constitutional democracy.

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