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Description:23 Days are the wartime memoirs of Antoni Jozef (Joe) Podolskiwritten by him some 44 years after the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939.It records his fight against the invading Russian Army, his subsequentcapture, imprisonment and brutal interrogation before being sentencedto death and spending 23 days on death row in a prison in the town of Orsha, Russia.A reprieve condemned him to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic UralMountains. His subsequent escape to England via Finland is describedfollowed by details of his return to Europe through Lithuania as amember of SOE. Finally a reunion with Polish Forces in the MiddleEast was made possible after the Nazi invasion of Russia caused theSoviets to become an uneasy ally of Poland.He returned to England once more and became a fighter pilot with thePolish Air Force at the tail end of hostilities, all by the ripe old age of 22.He died in Norfolk in 1999 aged 76.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 23 Days: A Memoir of 1939. To get started finding 23 Days: A Memoir of 1939, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 261

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Yellow Wheel Publishing

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0992933102

Description: 23 Days are the wartime memoirs of Antoni Jozef (Joe) Podolskiwritten by him some 44 years after the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939.It records his fight against the invading Russian Army, his subsequentcapture, imprisonment and brutal interrogation before being sentencedto death and spending 23 days on death row in a prison in the town of Orsha, Russia.A reprieve condemned him to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic UralMountains. His subsequent escape to England via Finland is describedfollowed by details of his return to Europe through Lithuania as amember of SOE. Finally a reunion with Polish Forces in the MiddleEast was made possible after the Nazi invasion of Russia caused theSoviets to become an uneasy ally of Poland.He returned to England once more and became a fighter pilot with thePolish Air Force at the tail end of hostilities, all by the ripe old age of 22.He died in Norfolk in 1999 aged 76.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 23 Days: A Memoir of 1939. To get started finding 23 Days: A Memoir of 1939, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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