Sue Anderson pointed my towards the works of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Mary_Gardner I may decide to tackle one of those, but I'm posting the list here for those of you who would like to take a look and maybe turn one of those into a project of their own.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27882 "Kościuszko" about one of the national heroes of Poland (and the US!)
https://archive.org/details/adammickiewiczn00gardgoog/page/n32/mode/2up "Adam Mickiewicz - the national poet of Poland"
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89102083045&seq=10 "The anonymous poet of Poland, Zygmunt Krasinski"
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027661845&seq=9 "The patriotic novelist of Poland, Henryk Sienkiewicz"
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7896083W/Poland?edition=key%3A/books/OL7167401M "Poland, a study in national idealism"