The Unseen and Silent; Adventures from the Underground Movement Narrated by Paratroops of The Polish Home Army

  • London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1954
By [WW2] IRANEK-OSMECKI, George
London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1954. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's original deep maroon cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. [xv]; 350pp. Light bumping to spine ends and a little incidental wear to the corners, bright and strong; internally clean; in a strong, handsome dustjacket with some toning and shallow chipping to the spine panel, some soiling of the rose colored cardstock, and a couple of small marginal closed tears. A very good copy, of a book rarely seen in dustjacket.

The eyewitness accounts of 25 Polish Home Army soldiers parachuted into occupied Poland during WW2 to take part in some of the most perilous missions in the annals of organised resistence aagainst the Nazis.

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