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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> General Wladyslaw Sikorski (20.5.1881-4.7.1943) before the First World War took part G in the creation of patriotic army organizations such as “Zwiazek Walki Czynnej” and “Zwiazek Strzelecki”. At the outbreak of the War he was Head of the Army Department of the National Committee of the Polish Legions which had been set up alongside the Austrian Army. He was also for a short time Commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Legions. In August 1920 during the Polish-Russian War of 1918-1920 he was appointed Commander of the Fifth Army which played an outstanding part in the victorious Battle of Warsaw destroying the numerically superior forces of three Soviet armies. Subsequently he was victori- ous in battles against Budienny’s cavalry. After the war in April 1921 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff and after the tragic death of the first President of the Republic Gabriel Narutowicz he became Prime Minister. In the years 1925-8 he was Commander of the Lw?w Military District. From 1928 until the outbreak of the Second World War he held no state or military appointments. At that time he devoted himself to political and military studies and published a number of books: “Nad Wisla i Wkra (On the Vistula and Wkra’) ‘Polska i Francja” (“Poland and France’ translated into French with a foreword by Painlev? as ‘Probl?mes de la Paix’) and Przyszla Wojna (Modern Warfare’) which was first published in French with a foreword by Mar?chal P?tain then in Russian and English; finally after the Second World War it appeared in America with a foreword by General Marshall.