God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY 195 Boleslawiec (the former Reichenbach). Jewish volunteers were trained in secret camps by the Polish comm ...
1O WOJSKO: The Military Tradition Few nations in the last two hundred years have seen more military action than the Poles. In th ...
THE MILITARY TRADITION 197 professional acadamies, uniforms, regulations, and armament industries. But their divided counsels ig ...
(^198) WOJSKO The Army of the Congress Kingdom extended French ideas into formations remodelled in the Russian image. The imposi ...
THE MILITARY TRADITION 199 on to form a new Polish army, it is not surprising that they found great difficulty in working togeth ...
200 WOJSKO ambiguous. In the Battle of Britain in 1940, Polish pilots accounted for some 15 per cent of enemy losses, thus contr ...
THE MILITARY TRADITION 20I They are to be found in songs from Bathory's campaigns in Muscovy, in the lively mazurkas of the uhla ...
II EMIGRACJA: The Polish Emigration Together with Ireland, Sicily, and parts of Germany, the Polish lands have pro- duced a disp ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION 2,03 enterprise command respect and admiration. Like all men in their condition, deprived of the comforts ...
204 EMIGRACJA trees, and everyone can pick their fill... All this is written on paper, and stamped. The organist has read it twi ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION ZOJ ship, but not their nationality. Even if the historian so wishes, it is often impos- sible to distingu ...
2o6 EMIGRACJA history. In the War of Independence, apart from Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski, whose exploits are known ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION^207 IMMIGRANTS TO USA a) Giving Poland as their 'place or country of birth': 1820-1885 33,489 1885-1898 13 ...
208 EMIGRACJA exploitation, sweated and interbred in the dirtiest slums. They were the gangers of the great American Railway Age ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION 2.09 Relatively speaking, the Poles of Canada include a larger proportion of polit- icals than is the case ...
210 EMIGRACJA though much diminished, still functioned. Elsewhere in the United Kingdom, there were large Polish communities in ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION 211 gres customarily divided themselves into conservative 'whites' and radical 'reds'. Wybicki's conservat ...
212 EMIGRACJA common loathing of the communist regime which in their eyes was an illegal usurper. The ancient feuds between the ...
THE POLISH EMIGRATION 213 as Sadik Pasha, in Turkey; like Karol Rolow-Miatowski (1842-1907) as a revo- lutionary in Cuba; like I ...
214 EMIGRACJA had steadily expanded its activities, invites selected guests to Poland, tempts the younger generation with subsid ...
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