DESCRIBED as a work of history and an upmarket version of TV's 'Who do You Think You Are?', Finding Poland by historian Matthew Kelly tells the story of the author's great-grandparents who found peace on a Dartmoor Farm after years of unrest in Poland under Stalinism.

Mr Kelly went to school in Milton Abbot and is a lecturer of history at the University of Southampton. His book, which has received positive reviews in the national media, is now on sale in Bookstop in Tavistock.

In it the author talks about his journey in the footsteps of his great grandmother and her two daughters who were among the many Poles dispossessed and persecuted, first by Stalin and then Hitler during the second world war. They fled what is now Belarus, travelled via Kazakhstan, Tehran and Karachi to settle in Tavistock.

Mr Kelly remembers his Polish great-grandmother Hanna from early childhood when he spent happy holidays on her small farm. His interest was sparked when he heard stories recounted by his English speaking grandmother.