Jenny Grant
SilenceInPolish
"If it's going to be wasted or perhaps handed over to the Hun, we'd better take it ourselves..." In June 1940, as Pétain seeks an armistice with Hitler, a difficult
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This weekend, the city of #Breda celebrates the #75th anniversary of its liberation by #Maczek's 1st Polish Armoured Div.For Maczek, the victory at Breda was second only to Falaise.A thread
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Today my thoughts turn to British drizzle, and the soldiers from foreign lands who endured it.Written just 4 years apart, Auden's 'Roman Wall Blues' and Pruszyński's 'Polish Invasion' reflect on
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1/"One thought dominated all others: to hold out for as long as possible. Our mission: to hold back the German advance through the mountain passes towards Myślenice and Dobczyce, and
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"Poles were liberating Poles!"#OTD, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Oberlangen by Maczek's 1st Polish Armoured Division.Koszutski, commander of the 2nd Armoured Regiment, received a report from local Dutchmen
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