Polish Military

The Most Wounded Warrior in British Military History Shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. Survived two plane crashes. Tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp. Lost an eye and a hand, then pulled off his own mangled fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. His response to it all? "Frankly, I enjoyed the war." A True Story That Defies Belief Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC lived through what should have killed him a dozen times over. This meticulously researched biography unveils the astounding true story of Britain's most decorated and wounded ...

Goodbye Poland is a gripping true story of survival, sacrifice, and the quiet strength of a boy forced into manhood by war. Seventeen-year-old Stefan Maczka was born into a proud legacy—his father, a Polish cavalry officer, helped stop the Russian advance into Europe during the 1920 ‘Miracle of the Vistula.’ That victory secured Poland’s independence and earned the Maczkas a plot of land on the new frontier. But Stalin never forgot the humiliation. In 1939, he got his revenge. Overnight, the Soviets rounded up the same families who had once defied them—ripping them from their ...

The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to use its new Panzers and dive-bombers. The Polish military is often misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and outclassed by the Wehrmacht, yet in fact it was well-equipped with modern weapons and armor.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

In the eye of the war That tore the world apart A mother wants a son A daughter needs a mother Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha’s mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor’s...

Want to learn about the most unusual bear that would serve in WW2? This was no ordinary bear! He served with Polish soldiers and became so popular that dignitaries would visit him. This is a full color story that has the most information on Wojtek than any others.

In 1943 Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details life in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion.

After a brief revival following World War I, during which it successfully defeated a Soviet attempt to invade in an effort to carry "international revolution" into Germany and Central Europe, Poland once again fell victim to its neighbors in 1939. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and Josef Stalin's USSR collaborated in the conquest and then split Poland between them. The Germans instituted oppressive rule in their portion of Poland, executing some 7,000 people on political grounds and imprisoning thousands of others.

On the day the Pentagon releases the UAP videos, a dying test pilot whispers: “We stole it.” April 27, 2020. In a hospice room, Robert Bourque finally tells the story he wasn’t allowed to tell. His confession drags us back to February 1945—London basements, forged papers, and a suicidal order from OSS and SIS: infiltrate Der Riese near Breslau, steal the Nazis’ impossible craft called Die Glocke, and get it out before the Soviets close the noose and the SS blows the site. The Bell doesn’t fly like an airplane. It moves like thought. Bourque gets ninety seconds of combat power, a...

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Smoke rolls through the forests. Tanks burn beside the railway line. Horses charge through artillery fire as Poland fights for survival on the first day of the Second World War. Under Fire – Mokra is a brutal and immersive collection of twelve interconnected stories set during the Battle of Mokra on 1 September 1939, where the Polish Volhynian Cavalry Brigade stunned the advancing German war machine with fierce resistance, hidden anti-tank guns, daring cavalry attacks, and stubborn determination. Through the eyes of tank commanders, cavalry troopers, infantrymen, Stuka pilots, artillery ...

Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways, unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record.

During the late 1930s the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler reached a secret alliance, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. By the terms of this agreement, the two dictators divided up Eastern Europe between them, and for a time Stalin even sought Axis membership. Though the alliance forged between the fascist and communist states could not survive their diametrically opposed views, they cooperated long enough to conquer Poland together in 1939.

At the time of the Revolutionary War, nations such as France undoubtedly had an elevating effect on America’s capacity to make formal war, and Lafayette is the most famous foreigner to serve in the Continental Army, but some of the most important individuals who fought for the colonists came from Poland. One of the most important individuals who arrived at George Washington’s door was Polish aristocrat Kazimierz Michal Wladyslaw Wiktor Pulaski, known to future generations as the “Father of the American Cavalry”, while Tadeusz Kosciuszko perceived the American conflict as the test of a new universal paradigm.

On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead. Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage?

Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent, and the Caribbean region. However, early America witnessed the development of New York by the Dutch, the southernmost regions by Spain, and what would become eastern Canada by the French after lengthy battles with Britain.

Reinhard Heydrich, Pieter Nicolaas Menten, Otto Gustav Wächter – czy pasja kolekcjonerska i osobisty udział w zbrodniach wojennych to jedyne wspólne mianowniki biografii nazistowskich oficerów? Kontynuacja bestsellera Magdaleny Ogórek „Lista Wächtera. Generał SS, który ograbił Kraków”.

Uklad Sloneczny nareszcie stanal przed ludzkoscia otworem - prywatne, wielkie korporacje skolonizowaly praktycznie wszystkie planety naszego systemu. Zbrojnym ramieniem firm sa prywatne armie, a posród nich najslynniejsza, legendarna - Czerwona Kompania. Jednak Uklad Sloneczny skrywa wiele tajemnic i juz wkrótce jedna z nich moze wywolac wojne o wiele gorsza niz dotychczasowe konflikty.

Ludzkosc opuscila Stara Ziemie i skolonizowala odlegle swiaty. Stalo sie to mozliwe dzieki odkryciu tuneli czasoprzestrzennych, które skrócily droge do ukladów gwiezdnych z planetami nadajacymi sie do zamieszkania. Wlasnie dlatego sektor Victorii stal sie wezlem komunikacyjnym i handlowym dla pozostalych systemów zasiedlonych przez ludzi - znajduje sie tutaj az siedem tuneli czasoprzestrzennych. I az siedem powodów, aby zdobyc ten obszar kosmosu.Rozwijajace sie mocarstwa - Cesarstwo Tilleke i Dominium Zjednoczenia Ludowego - pragna zawladnac sektorem Victorii. Chociaz od stuleci ludzkosc zyje w pokoju, zawiazuje sie spisek. Na wiktorianskich granicach trwaja przygotowania do wojny.

Dawno, dawno temu - czterdziesci tysiecy lat wstecz - dwie wrogie kosmiczne cywilizacje toczyly ze soba wojne. Wielkim przegranym okazala sie Arnvallia, której niedobitki zdolali umknac silom wroga w tylko sobie znanym kierunku. Od tamtej pory psy goncze skrupulatnie przeczesuja kosmos, by doszczetnie zniszczyc jakiekolwiek slady dawnego Imperium. W koncu na obrzezach Galaktyki natrafiaja na planete, mogaca miec zwiazek z Arnvallia. I tu rozpoczyna sie wlasciwa akcja "Syndromu Everetta". Czy ta planeta jest Ziemia? Czy ludzkosc ma jakiekolwiek szanse w starciu z niewyobrazalnie potezna armia?