In the article the Author presents the typology of alternative history and in its light he characterises the historical writings of Jerzy Łojek, in particular his approach towards history of November Uprising, 1830–1831.

The article attempts to show Szczepan Twardoch’s novel Drach as a literary version of the counter- history, which constitute an alternative vision of the past. The theory of counter-history was taken from Michel Foucault’s writings Society Must Be Defended. By this conception Foucault tried to restore the history of those excluded from the offi cial historical discourse.

In the article the Author presents the typology of alternative history and un its light he characterises the historical writings of Jerzy Łojek, in particular his approach towards history of November Uprising, 1830-1831.

In recent years, some authors have departed from the classical presentation of World War 2. This article analyses selected alternative and revisionist narratives present in the works of Tymoteusz Pawłowski, Rafał Ziemkiewicz and Piotr Zychowicz in terms of historical and ahistorical thinking, presents the authors' attitude towards the achievements of historiography, and presents the way in which they create their narratives, the content of those narratives, and evaluates them in terms of their correctness from the point of view of compliance with historical facts.