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Genre/Form: | collective biographies Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Władysław Anders; Władysław Anders |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Norman Davies |
ISBN: | 9781472816030 147281603X |
OCLC Number: | 930775456 |
Description: | 597 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm |
Contents: | First fruit of the Nazi-Soviet pact 1939-1941 -- The consequences of Barbarossa 1941 -- Central Asia 1942-1943 -- Consolidation of the Army 1941-1943 -- Evacuation from the USSR 1942-1943 -- Iran 1942-1943 -- The Carpathian brigade 1941-1943 -- Iraq 1941-1943 -- Who were the Andersowcy? -- Civilian diaspora 1942-1944 -- Palestine 1943-1945 -- Sikorski's last mission, 1943 -- 'The Anders' Aliyah' 1943 -- Egypt 1941-1945 -- Italy : the road to Monte Cassino 1944 -- Wojtek, the soldier bear 1942-1963 -- Italy : the road from Monte Cassino 1944-1945 -- War's end : from Italy to nowhere 1945-1946 -- Britain : end of the rail 1946-1948 -- Retrospect : historiography, films, museum, memoirs, internet. |
Responsibility: | Norman Davies. |
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Abstract:
Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes and sent eastwards to the arctic wastes of Siberia. This book is all about the World War II.
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