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Man of Steel and Honour: General Stanislaw Maczek, Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45

Man of Steel and Honour: General Stanislaw Maczek, Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45

          
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This is a biography of one of the most undervalued commanders of the Second World War, General Stanislaw Maczek, a soldier overlooked by most military historians in the West both because he was Polish and above politics. Unlike most Polish commanders he rocked no boats and after his service was complete in 1947 he retreated into relative obscurity. When he died at the age of 102 he had left a single published book of his war memoirs and little else to the popular imagination. One had to be acquainted with his armored division, the wartime 1st Polish Armoured Division in order to know anything of the man or even to have even heard of him. This book is an attempt to try to put the historical record right, at least in the English language, and place front and center into the wartime historiography the story of an extraordinary man.

Maczek's story is the story of 20th Century Poland and begins naturally enough with his birth in 1892, into a Poland that hadn't existed since 1795 when it was trisected between the three empires of Austrian, Russia and Prussia (later Germany). Maczek was born in the Austrian sector, which meant in 1914 he was conscripted into the Imperial Austrian Army, with which he served with great credit on the Italian Front, high in the Alps. It was this experience which was to serve Maczek well in his future career in the Polish Army after 1918. / Maczek should be remembered for his pioneering use of mixed armor and infantry units as well as the early use of commando-style units during the Polish border wars of 1918-1920. However his work was ignored despite its obvious success. He should also be recognized as being the savior of the Normandy Campaign, which by August 1944 was seriously bogged down. It was feared that the German forces in Normandy might be able to flee over the River Seine and head eastwards towards Germany. A magnificent, stubborn and costly stand by the Polish 1st Armoured Division during August 1944 prevented this happening, and the Normandy Campaign was able to succeed. This is yet to be credited to the Poles in the imagination of the West. Maczek's division was later able to advance into Germany, fighting its way through the Low Countries. Maczek's command of the division and its combat service in North-West Europe 1944-45 is fully described, and represents, in particular, an important contribution to our knowledge of the Normandy Campaign.

After the war, Maczek, now exiled and stateless and with his homeland seized by the Soviet Union, was stripped of his Polish citizenship by the Communists, and was left to bring up his young family on his wages as a barman. This is the story of a man who changed history, fully researched from archival and printed materials, and with a heavy reliance on original Polish language sources. The text is complemented by over 100 previously unpublished photographs, focusing on Maczek and the 1st Polish Armoured Division 1944-45.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781910777381
  • Publisher: Helion & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1910777382
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: General Stanislaw Maczek, Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45
  • Width: 155 mm


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