| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 407 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Full Title""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright""; ""Content""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface by BronisÅ?aw Komorowski""; ""Foreword by Adam Komorowski""; ""Introduction by Norman Davies""; ""Preface""; ""Part One""; ""I. The Birth of the Underground, Cracow""; ""II. Deputy Commander of the Home Army, Warsaw""; ""III. Commander-in-Chief, Home Army""; ""Part Two""; ""IV. The Warsaw Rising""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Poland regained its independence in 1918, and Komorowski fought against the Russians in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-21.When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Komorowski was the commander of units defending the Vistula River, but he was pushed eastwards by the fierce advance. Despite being surrounded by German forces, he escaped to Cracow. Although he planned to escape to the West, he was ordered to stay and start a resistance movement. He stay |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1950 |
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Includes index |
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Translated from the Polish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Komorowski, Tadeusz, 1895-1966.
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Komorowski, Tadeusz, 1895-1966 |
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Poland. Polskie Siy̨ Zbrojne. Armia Krajowa
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish
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Generals -- Poland -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Generals
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War -- Underground movements
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Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012371067 |
| ISBN |
9781473800304 |
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1473800307 |
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1306877431 |
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9781306877435 |
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1473819628 |
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9781473819627 |
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