Zolnierze Polscy, ktorzy byli w Rosji w walce o wolnosc. / Żołnierze Polscy, którzy byli w Rosji w walce o wolność. The Poles who went to and Through Russia in Fight For Freedom. I soldati polacchi che sono stati in Russia in lotta per la liberta. Foto-Album.
Roma: Wydał Rererat [Referat] Kultury i Prasy Kresowej Dywizji Piechoty, 1945. Photographically illustrated throughout. First edition. Text in Polish, English and Italian. In publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers. (144) p. Cover slightly chipped, dusted. With an inscription on inner front panel, dated in 1945 in Martinsicuro. Somewhat worn, a gathering loose. Overall in good condition.
Scarce photobook that tells the story of the Polish II Corps.
The Polish II Corps was a major tactical and operational unit recruited from Polish deportees in the Soviet Gulags in 1943. First they fought in the Middle East, and in 1944 February they were transferred to Italy and as independent part of the British Army to fight in the Italian campaign, in the battles of Monte Cassino and Ancona and also the Battle of Bologna during the final offensive
in Italy in 1945.
The book goes through the story of Poland and the later established Polish II Corps, starting with the German and Soviet occupation in 1939. It shows the deportation of Poles to forced labour to the Gulag and, after the Polish-Russian Military Agreement in 1941, the establishment of the Polish Army on Soviet soil, also their military training and their fights in various battles. Each page contains a photographic image or a photomontage accompanied with a short text in three languages.
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Price: €800.00