The War Chronicles of Jerzy Dobiecki - Heintze, Ian von
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"This tribute to the life of Jerzy Dobiecki, a Polish cavalry captain with the 18-ty Pu±k U±anâow Pomorskich - the 18th Polish Pomeranian Lancers, is a story based on previously archived material, originally written by the Captain in Polish, that has been translated for the first time into English. The Captain's chronicles bring to life eye-witness accounts of his regiment's deployments during the Russo-Polish War between 1919 and 1921, one of several little-publicized wars in English and fought between Poland and her neighbors immediately following the 1914-1918 Great War. Eighteen years…mehr

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"This tribute to the life of Jerzy Dobiecki, a Polish cavalry captain with the 18-ty Pu±k U±anâow Pomorskich - the 18th Polish Pomeranian Lancers, is a story based on previously archived material, originally written by the Captain in Polish, that has been translated for the first time into English. The Captain's chronicles bring to life eye-witness accounts of his regiment's deployments during the Russo-Polish War between 1919 and 1921, one of several little-publicized wars in English and fought between Poland and her neighbors immediately following the 1914-1918 Great War. Eighteen years later, as Poland was invaded by Germany in September 1939, from his position on attachment to the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs in Warsaw, Captain Dobiecki kept a diary of battles as they developed across Poland during the first weeks of the Second World War. The diary records events as he, and what remained of the Polish military High Command, were evacuated to neighboring Romania when Poland was additionally overrun by Soviet forces from the east. His journal sheds light on his subsequent escape from internment across Europe to France and later on to Britain, where he served as a staff officer with the command of the Polish 1st Corps, formed in exile in Scotland. Following the end of hostilities in Europe in 1945 and upon return to Britain after the fighting on the continent, like thousands of other Poles commissioned under the auspices of the Polish Resettlement Corps, Jerzy had to decide whether to return to his native Poland or whether he should try to somehow rescue and bring to England what was left of his family - now trapped behind the Iron Curtain in eastern Poland, facing an uncertain future and severity under a Stalinist regime."--
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Ian von Heintze is the son of Polish parents who both fled Poland to England either during or immediately after the Second World War. A language graduate, Ian spent his formative years in Ethiopia. On his return to England he went on to complete a career as a police officer, retiring in 2001 in the rank of Inspector with the Specialist Operations Directorate of London's Metropolitan Police. He lives with his wife in south-west England.