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  • GENERAL WLADYSLAW SIKORSKI, 1881–1943
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    GENERAL WLADYSLAW SIKORSKI, 1881–1943
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    General Władysław Sikorski, head of the wartime Polish Government and Commander-in-Chief, rebuilt the Polish Army in exile before his mysterious death in 1943. General Władysław Sikorski was the Head of the wartime Polish Government and Polish Commander-in-Chief, 1939-1943. Sikorski rose to prominence in Poland between 1910 and 1918 as part of the movement towards Polish indepe...

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  • FIRST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION 1938–47
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    FIRST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION 1938–47
    EVAN MCGILVRAY / JANUSZ JARZEMBOWSKI
    "If the Polish armed forces are of interest to you this title covering their distinguished service during World War II should appeal to many." — Armorama   The First Polish Armored Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish ...

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  • FIRST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION 1938–47
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    FIRST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION 1938–47
    EVAN MCGILVRAY / JANUSZ JARZEMBOWSKI
    "If the Polish armed forces are of interest to you this title covering their distinguished service during World War II should appeal to many." — Armorama   The First Polish Armored Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish ...

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  • DAYS OF ADVERSITY
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    DAYS OF ADVERSITY
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised are, was the uprising necessary and why was it so poorly conducted by a totally indifferent leadership? The challenge is made that t...

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  • A MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
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    A MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Before 1939 there had been little contact between Poland and Britain. Between 1939 and 1945, however, the two countries were joined i...

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  • BLACK DEVILS' MARCH - A DOOMED ODYSSEY
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    BLACK DEVILS' MARCH - A DOOMED ODYSSEY
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish Government in Exile, was able to return to Europe in August 1944 on the side of the Western Allies. In Europe the Division achieved...

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  • FIELD MARSHAL CLAUDE AUCHINLECK
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    FIELD MARSHAL CLAUDE AUCHINLECK
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    This military biography explores the life and service of a British Indian Army officer who served with distinction across both world wars. During the First World War, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his efforts in Egypt and the Mesopotamian Campaign. Afterward, he aided the pacification of the Northwest Frontier, now Pakistan. In th...

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  • POLAND AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1938–1948
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    POLAND AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1938–1948
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    A detailed chronicle of Poland's efforts during World War II from beginning to end, by the author of Narvik and the Allies.   The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance, Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war against G...

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  • ANDERS' ARMY
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    ANDERS' ARMY
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    Along with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939. They endured terrible treatment until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 suddenly put Stalin in the Allied camp, after which they were evacuated to Iran and formed into the Polish Second Corps under Anders command.Once ...

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  • DE GAULLE AND CHURCHILL
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    DE GAULLE AND CHURCHILL
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    De Gaulle and Churchill examines the tense and complicated relationship between General de Gaulle as leader of the Free French on the one hand and Winston Churchill and the British Government on the other. Evan McGilvray shows that De Gaulle was a career soldier, not a politician by any means, prior to 1940 but stepped into the leadership vacuum after the fall of France to prov...

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  • HAMILTON & GALLIPOLI
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    HAMILTON & GALLIPOLI
    EVAN MCGILVRAY
    This is a study of Sir Ian Hamilton VCs command of the Gallipoli campaign. Appointed by Kitchener after the failure of the initial Allied naval offensive in the Dardanelles, Hamilton was to lead the ambitious amphibious landings that were intended to open the way to Constantinople. In the event, however, opportunities immediately after the landings were squandered and, in the f...

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