Zaremba ... frames his work within the best theoretical literature on the history of emotions and, through reference to a very large body of primary material that includes official records and personal papers, illustrates the lived experience of the individuals who are his subject, including many supposedly ordinary people ... [and] concludes with a sensitive, insightful assessment of Poles' fears of other ethnic groups, such as Germans, Jews, and Ukrainians. The individual testimonies he cites to support his analyses are often heart-wrenching, but they lend authenticity to his larger picture of the complexity, nature, and significance of fear in this period.- P. W. Knoll, emeritus, University of Southern California Marcin Zaremba's Entangled in Fear is a long-awaited English translation of Wielka Trwoga. Polska 1944–1947. Ludowa reakcja na kryzys (The great fear: A popular reaction to crisis [Warsaw, 2012]), an excellent, innovative (though not uncontroversial) study on fear in postwar Poland that comprises one of the most important works of social history and a key Polish contribution to the field of the history of emotions in recent years.- Katarzyna Person – The Emmanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (Austrian History Yearbook)
