In May 1946, the artist Marek Zulawski returned to his homeland of Poland.
During his many years away, his former home city had been devastated by the Nazi Germans in retaliation for the Warsaw Uprising.
He had been in London when World War II broke out in 1939. He remained there, contributing to the war effort through designing posters and broadcast journalism with BBC Radio's Polish section.
When he came back for an exhibition of his work at the National Museum in Warsaw, he brought his notepad and sketchbook. The resulting notes and drawings went into his autobiography 'Study for a Self-Portrait' published decades later in Polish.
Here for the first time in English is this unique record of his trip. A confrontation with an almost unrecognisable place ravaged by unspeakable horrors that was somehow returning to a semblance of normality.
