 Piotr Wróbel considers Piotrowski's works as "highly polemical and controversial", similar to those by Richard C. Lukas and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz.Gifford Malone writes that the introduction of "The Polish Deportees of World War II" is useful, and that the rest of the book contains personal accounts of deportees.All together Malone considers the volume to be a well written and moving account.