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Bellona Publishing House ( pl, Wydawnictwo Bellona, formerly also ''Dom Wydawniczy Bellona'') is a private
publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...
based in
Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
,
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. It was created in 1990 from restructuring of the state-run Wydawnictwo MON. It specialises in books on military history. Among the authors who published with Bellona are academic historians
Henryk Samsonowicz Henryk Bohdan Samsonowicz (23 January 1930 – 28 May 2021) was a Polish historian specializing in medieval Poland, prolific writer, and professor of the University of Warsaw. In 1989–1990, he was the minister of education in the government of ...
, Lech Wyszczelski,
Leszek Moczulski Robert Leszek Moczulski (, born 7 June 1930) is a Polish historian and politician, a member of various organizations, first supporting then supposedly opposing the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland while dividing the opposition ...
, and as well as journalists and writers like , Grzegorz Miecugow, . Bellona issues more than 300 books yearly. It is also the publisher of '' Mówią Wieki'', a monthly historical magazine established in 1958.


Wydawnictwo MON

Wydawnictwo MON ''(Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, lit. Publishing House of the Ministry of National Defense)'' was founded in 1947 and until 1952 its official title was Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej „Prasa Wojskowa" (lit. ''Publishing House of the Ministry of National Defense "Military Press"''). It released books related to military subjects, such as memoirs of veterans or monographs on battles or military units. In 1976 the publishing house received the Commanders Cross of the Polonia Restituta.
Wysokie odznaczenia państwowe dla zasłużonych zakładów pracy, uczelni, instytucji i stowarzyszeń
'. „Nowiny”, s. 1, Nr 165 z 21-22 lipca 1976.
Around 1989–1990 it was restructured into the Bellona Publishing House.


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