Author: Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz,
Title: THE SECRET ARMY - The Memoirs of General Bór-Komorowski.
Description: Frontline, Barnsley, 2011, 1st in imprint, 407pp, half tone frontis portrait, 24pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author was a Colonel in command of units defending the Vistula River when Poland was invaded on 1st September 1939. Pushed eastwards and surrounded he escaped to Cracow from where he planned to reach the West but was ordered to remain and start a resistance movement. In 1941 he was sent to Warsaw and in 1943 appointed by the Polish government in exile to lead the Home Army and perpare for an uprising to help liberate Poland, which came in August 1944 with disastrous results when the Russian advance paused to allow a German counter-attack, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 army poland occupation germany warsaw resistance sabotage uprising


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