Polish Military

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,

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.

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.

When Hitler invades Poland in 1939, newlyweds Józef and Marysia Buko are catapulted into a sudden and heart-wrenching seven-year separation. Józef honors the soldier’s code and is forced to fight battles in many foreign lands. Marysia remains in Warsaw to join in the underground resistance against Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Each faces life-threatening situations demanding courage, faith, and resilience if the couple is ever to see each other again.

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.

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.

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.

From the award-winning and acclaimed author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, From Warsaw with Love tells the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War. In 1990, soon after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who’d battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad.

No longer war, but not yet peace. A fascinating journey through 12 months of fear, hope, euphoria, and disappointment. A journalistic story about the most dramatic year of the 20th century. Grzebałkowska examines the fate of the last living witnesses of that time. She gives voices to the victims, but also the oppressors, especially when she can use them to show the post-war blending of roles and fates. 1945: War and Peace won the 2016 Nike Literary Audience Award.

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?

Dzieło życia Jacka Komudy, znanego popularyzatora historii i autora kilkudziesięciu bestsellerów książkowych. Tym razem pisarz wziął na warsztat wojska I Rzeczypospolitej. Na temat powstań kozackich napisano bardzo wiele prac naukowych, rozwikłano wiele problemów politycznych, gospodarczych i społecznych, nie mamy jednak pełnego obrazu jak wyglądała wojskowość kozacka. Niniejsza książka jest – o dziwo – pierwszą rozprawą omawiającą kozacką ars militaris. Piechota zaporoska, jej uzbrojenie i sposób walki.

A reportage from the turbulent, chaotic birth of the free Angola; the author calls it his “first real book”. Ryszard Kapuściński arrives to a country divided by two armies. For some time he's the only foreign correspondent there. Among the unbelievable chaos, he meets more and more people whose fates become the illustration of the cruelty of war. This book is a unique combination of war reportage with literary artistry - so characteristic of Ryszard Kapuściński.

W odleglej przyszlosci ludzie panuja nad wieksza czescia ramienia Galaktyki. Jednak nie sa to czasy pokoju. Dwie glówne sily, Cesarstwo i Republika, wciaz tocza wojne. Wrogie floty scieraja sie, próbujac przejac kontrole nad nowymi terytoriami i zasobami kosmosu. Kapitan Aidan Samuels, dowódca niszczyciela "Sirene", musi wziac udzial w tajemniczej misji. Uwielbiany przez wlasna zaloge, Samuels jest sola w oku przelozonych. To mistrz wszechswiata w lekcewazeniu regulaminów, co nie przeszkadza mu znakomicie wykonywac powierzonych zadan. Podczas wojny tacy ludzie sa na wage zlota.

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?

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.

Czwarta czesc cyklu Star Carrier. Fabula "Otchlani" osadzona jest ponad dwadziescia lat po wydarzeniach z finalu tomu trzeciego. Nie zmienili sie glówni bohaterowie, przybylo kilku nowych. Trevor Gray jest kapitanem i sluzy na "Americe", ale pod rozkazami innego dowódcy. Admirala Koeniga spotykamy w powiesci tuz po wygranych przez niego wyborach prezydenckich w USA. Obca rasa atakuje ludzka placówke.

Kapitan Aidan Samuels nigdy nie byl i raczej nie bedzie ulubiencem moznych tego swiata. O nagrodach, zaszczytach, spokojnym zyciu, lasce cesarza i jego urzedników moze spokojnie zapomniec. Zamiast odpoczac, zostanie wyslany w kolejna misje, która ma pomóc wyjasnic, czym sa tajemnicze skupiska materii pojawiajace sie w kosmosie.

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.

W piatej czesci opowiesci o zmaganiach ludzkosci z potezna prastara cywilizacja pewne sprawy zostaja wyjasnione, ale nowe wydarzenia przynosza równiez wiele pytan. Ludzie wciaz musza walczyc - zmagac sie ze smiertelnym zagrozeniem w bezlitosnej pustce kosmosu, na obcych globach, nie rozumiejac do konca sposobu rozumowania wroga, nie majac pojecia o jego rzeczywistych zamiarach.

Dwadziescia lat po wizycie Grupy Bojowej "Ameryka" w Chmurze N'gai ludzkosc znowu zetknie sie z nieznanym. Na ziemi konca dobiega wojna domowa miedzy Stanami Zjednoczonymi Ameryki Pólnocnej a Konfederacja Terranska. Przy udziale mysliwców z "Ameryki" zniszczone zostaja ostatnie ogniska oporu, a przywódcy pojmani.