ISBN10: 0902508091, ISBN13: 9780902508095, [publisher: Sikorski museum] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> General Wladyslaw Sikorski (20.5.1881-4.7.1943) before the First World War took part G in the creation of patriotic army organizations such as "Zwiazek Walki Czynnej" and "Zwiazek Strzelecki". At the outbreak of the War he was Head of the Army Department of the National Committee of the Polish Legions, which had been set up alongside the Austrian Army. He was also, for a short time, Commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Legions. In August 1920, during the Polish-Russian War of 1918-1920, he was appointed Commander of the Fifth Army, which played an outstanding part in the victorious Battle of Warsaw, destroying the numerically superior forces of three Soviet armies. Subsequently he was victori- ous in battles against Budienny's cavalry. After the war, in April 1921, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff and, after the tragic death of the first President of the Republic, Gabriel Narutowicz, he became Prime Minister. In the years 1925-8 he was Commander of the Lw?w Milita
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