For Your Freedom and Ours

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'A wonderful story, wonderfully told. Heroism and betrayal make for heady reading, and this book is long overdue.' NORMAN DAVIES The story of how Polish fighter pilots in the RAF helped win the Battle of Britain yet, by their lights, lost the war has never, until now, been fully and properly told. This gripping book focuses on a small group of five of them, from defeat in Poland and Francé to victory in the Battle of Britain, from their idolisation by the public to the harrowing story of their betrayal - and Poland's - by Britain and the USA as the war came to its closing stages. This is a fascinating story, heroic, inspiring and finally tragic, strikingly well told. 'A tribute to the Polish pilots and, more broadly, an eloquent indictment of the realpolitik that led Britain and America to turn their backs on Poland later in the war in a craven attempt to appease Stalin. Beginning as a compelling account of the individual Poles who fled their country in 1939 to fight for the Allies,... Tovább

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'A wonderful story, wonderfully told. Heroism and betrayal make for heady reading, and this book is long overdue.' NORMAN DAVIES The story of how Polish fighter pilots in the RAF helped win the Battle of Britain yet, by their lights, lost the war has never, until now, been fully and properly told. This gripping book focuses on a small group of five of them, from defeat in Poland and Francé to victory in the Battle of Britain, from their idolisation by the public to the harrowing story of their betrayal - and Poland's - by Britain and the USA as the war came to its closing stages. This is a fascinating story, heroic, inspiring and finally tragic, strikingly well told. 'A tribute to the Polish pilots and, more broadly, an eloquent indictment of the realpolitik that led Britain and America to turn their backs on Poland later in the war in a craven attempt to appease Stalin. Beginning as a compelling account of the individual Poles who fled their country in 1939 to fight for the Allies, this account ends as a grim tale of political treachery and backstabbing.' SUNDAY TIMES 'An impassioned, riveting account' NEWSWEEK 'An astonishing achievement! A fascinating account of the extremely well documented heroic and daring struggle of a group of Polish military pilots and through it they present us a glimpse of the harrowing history of Poland and Europe during the Second World War.' RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI 'This excellent book renders overdue homage to the "Forgottén Heroes" of [its] title... This is a tremendous story, grippingly told... Deserves to be heard as widely as possible' SPECTATOR Vissza