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Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47

Jarzembowski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9781909384439, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2014
148 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 black&white illus.

This wonderful album is a brilliant pictorial history of the 1st Polish Armoured Division composed of about 250 photographs, documents and publications largely collected by WO1 Alexander Leon "Manka" Jarzembowski, a veteran of 2nd Armoured Regiment,...

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Polonica

Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other

Mirriam-Goldberg Caryn

ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...

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Polonica

Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland

Mandelkern Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...

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Military Government in Exile The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, a study of discontent

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033583, ISBN: HB: 9781908916976, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2010
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 1 map

This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Bef...

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Black Devils' March - A Doomed Odyssey The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-45

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033538, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
160 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 94 photos, 9 maps

The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish G...

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