An Army in Exile

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It is 1941. General Anders is imprisoned in the Lubianka in Moscow by the NKVD. Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union leads to his release to form a Polish Army in Russia. From labour camps all over the Soviet Union Polish soliders who have survived are released to rejoin the Polish army.

General Anders and his men eventually make their way to Persia and from there to fight major battles against the Germans in Italy at Monte Cassino, Ancona and Bologna.

General Anders died in London on 12 May 1970 and lies buried with his men at the Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy.

Chapters

The book contains the following chapters:

1. The conflict begins
2. A prisoner of the NKVD
3. In the Lubianka
4. A free man again
5. Birth of an army
6. The camps disgorge
7. "Kolyma means death"
8. General Sikorski in Russia
9. A conference with Stalin
10. Growing difficulties
11. Exodus from Russia
12. Those we left behind
13. A talk with Churchill
14. The army in Iraq
15. The Katyn murders
16. The move to Italy
17. Before Monte Cassino
18. The battle and the victory
19. Capture of Ancona
20. The sin of Teheran
21. The battle of Warsaw
22. A city sacrificed
23. Growing pressure on Poland
24. Mr Mikolajczyk in Moscow
25. Bad news from Yalta
26. A summons to London
27. No V-Day for Poland
28. The homeless million
29. Russia's double game
30. An army fades away
31. Old comrades cold-shouldered