God's Playground: A History of Poland is a history book in two volumes written by Norman Davies, covering a 1000-year history of Poland.
Volume 1: The origins to 1795, and Volume 2: 1795 to the present first appeared as the Oxford Clarendon Press publication in 1981 and have since been reprinted in multiple times,[1] and translated into Polish as Boże igrzysko : Historia Polski by Elżbieta Tabakowska (2 volumes in 1, with 1183 pages by Znak Publishers of Kraków).
[2] Davies was inspired to the title by Jan Kochanowski's 1580s poem Boże igrzysko ("Mankind: Bauble of the Gods").
The book, which most editions split into two volumes, has received favourable reviews in the international press, and is considered by many historians[3] and other scholars to be one of the best English-language books on the subject of the history of Poland.
The author received several Polish honours.