Author: POMYKALSKI, WANDA E.6803
Title: The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War Ii Signed Copy
Description: Pasadena, MD: Minerva Center, 1999. First Edition. First Printing; Hard Cover. ISBN: 0963489542. Hardcover is black with gold lettering on spine. Signed bookplate, by author, on front end paper. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with a b/w map, and 8 b/w photographs. Stated first printing, May, 1999." When Poland was invaded in September 1939, young Wanda Pomykalski's life changed irreversibly. She and two friends set out to join the Polish army in exile to fight for freedom...captured by Soviet soldiers...hundreds of other Polish nationals were loaded onto a Soviet train that carried them eastward into the Soviet Union...they arrived in Odessa...later, Wanda and her cellmates were once again loaded into boxcars...across the Ural Mountains to Siberia...Once again she and her comrades endured a long railway journey, this time to reach the Polish Army. Wanda became a woman soldier, assigned as clerk typist with the Polish forces in the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt and Italy where she served just 40 km from the front lines at the historic battle for Monte Cassino in May 1944". ; B&W Photographs & Maps; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; xiii, 362 pages; Cover has light bumping, shelf wear. DJ has light shelf wear, rubbing; in a mylar cover. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0963489542 Poland; Polish; Philosphy; Literatur Polish History; Women; Women's History; World War 2; Soviet Union History; Prisoners of War; Trains; Southern Pacific Railway; Railways; Railro Deportations; Native American History Women/Womens' History Cul