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In recent decades, there has been a marked tendency to look at war literature from a perspective that reaches beyond the experiences of particular nations. Characteristically, though poetry and prose from Poland, Hungary and former Czechoslovakia are included in multi-national anthologies, the war literatures of Eastern Europe seem to have been ignored in critical studies. The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry. 1939-1945 aims to fill in this critical vacuum. This study concentrates on the processes through which British and Polish poetry contributed to the shaping of myths of war, each offering creative interpretations of historical facts and developments. Both poetic traditions are a...
Czasy i przyja nie" to zbior barwnych opowie ci, w ktorych autor opisuje sp dzone na Lubelszczy nie dzieci stwo, pierwsze kroki stawiane w zawodzie pilota, burzliwe wydarzenia wojenne oraz lata sp dzone na emigracji. Nie jest to jednak wy cznie ksi ka wspomnieniowa, bowiem na przyk adzie biografii jednego cz owieka mowi ona o zawik anych i dramatycznych kartach najnowszej historii Polski i wiata. Czytelnik znajdzie w niej rownie portrety ludzi, ktorzy przeszli do dziejow polskiego lotnictwa, pisarzy, aktorow i intelektualistow, jakimi szczyci a si nasza emigracja. ***** "Times and Friendships," is a collection of colourful accounts, describing a childhood spent in the Lublin district, Poland, the author's first steps as a professional pilot, the upheavals of war and the years spent in exile. One man's biography becomes a journey through the intricate and dramatic pathways of the recent history of Poland and the world, with portraits of Polish aviators, writers, actors and intellectuals.
After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force - flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units - made a tremendous contribution to the Allied air victory. The PAFs gallant, lonely fight in September 1939 inflicted the first losses on the mighty Luftwaffe and allowed Britain a nine month grace to strengthen her air defenses. Their part in the Battle of Britain became legend, and its contribution to the early RAF bomber offensive on Germany was equally great. PAF exploits over Dieppe, North Africa, and during the invasion of Europe received special commendations from the RAF. This tw...
En polsk flyveofficers erindringer fra 2. verdenskrig
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