Polish Military

The vivid memoirs of Heinrich von Brandt, a young law student swept up in Napoleon's reshaping of Europe and dispatched to Spain with the Vistula Legion of the newly formed Duchy of Warsaw. Brandt becomes an officer of the voltigeurs, light infantry who were used to skirmish, patrol, screen battlefield movements, and engage the guerrilla insurgency. He fought battles at Tudela, Santa Maria, and Valencia, as well as sieges at Zaragoza and Tortosa, and participated in numerous smaller engagements, earning the French Légion d’honneur and the Polish Order of Virtuti Militari.

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 Polish Short Stories: 11 Simple Stories for Beginners Who Want to Learn Polish in Less Time While Also Having Fun, you will encounter rich and new but not too complex vocabulary, which is translated at the end of the chapter, avoiding the hassle of having to stop the reading rhythm to look up every word in the dictionary.

Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map for more than a century. Yet even under these constraints, Poles persisted in their desire to wrest from their oppressors a modicum of national dignity and, ultimately, managed to achieve much more than that.

In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or "Anders Army", and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with firsthand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. With an inspiring tradition of resistance to brutal invaders, from the barbarians to the Nazis, and a heritage of pride that burns through eras of romantic passion and courageous solidarity, their common story reaches a breathtaking culmination in the historic showdown between the ruthless Communists and rebellious farmers of the modern age.

Ernest ma zasady, jest pewny tego, co chce osiągnąć w życiu. Zawsze marzył o karierze. Udało mu się zdobyć wykształcenie i pozycję w wojsku, a nawet na dziesięć lat zapomnieć o rodzinnym piekle… Nie jest jednak w stanie wyrzucić z głowy tych, których kocha. Ich ból i doświadczenia na zawsze pozostaną we wspomnieniach i nigdy nie przestaną dręczyć, jeśli nie odkryje prawdziwej przyczyny cierpienia swoich bliskich.

There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold: the story of the fourth largest Allied military of the war, and the only nation to have fought in the battles of Leningrad, Arnhem, Tobruk, and Normandy. This is the story of the Polish forces during the Second World War, the story of millions of young men and women who gave everything for freedom and in the final victory lost all. In a cruel twist of history, the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been largely forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. No Greater Ally redresses the balance,

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?

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.

Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country. As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to reclaim lands incorporated into the new state of Poland at Versailles.

Ziemi wciąż zagraża gazowy obłok, sprowadzony przez Maxolhxów i blokujący promienie słoneczne. Chcąc zmusić nieprzyjaciół, by pomogli rozwiązać ten problem, albo przynajmniej nie wchodzili ludziom w drogę, generał Joe Bishop i Skippy zademonstrowali, że są w stanie kontrolować sieci tuneli czasoprzestrzennych i pozbawić szczytowe rasy dostępu do innych rejonów Drogi Mlecznej. Problem w tym, że rzekoma nowa superbroń ludzkości to zwykły blef. Czy nieprzyjaciel przejrzy oszustwo, czy też podejmie desperackie kroki, przekonany, że nie ma nic do stracenia?

Rok 1670. Szlachcic i najemnik Michał Hieronim Dantyszek zaczyna żałować, że kiedykolwiek dla Rzeczypospolitej walczył i zabijał… Bohater zostaje najemnikiem, walczy we Francji oraz w angielskiej wojnie domowej. Za granicą poznaje trzy osoby, z którymi bez reszty złączy się jego żywot: siedzącego w więzieniu pod zarzutem szpiegostwa Jana Kazimierza Wazę, arystokratkę Marię Ludwikę Gonzagę i polskiego magnata Jerzego Sebastiana Lubomirskiego.

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?

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.

Drugi tom militarnej septologii science fiction. W dalszym ciagu sledzimy zmagania Ziemian z obca cywilizacja. Po zwyciestwie nad okretami Turushów Homo Sapiens szykuja sie do ofensywy.

Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake.

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.

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.

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.