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Reading as Usual. Huddled in their apartments in the face of atrocities so terrible the mind simply went blank under them, with subtle tortures added to their desperation, their ignorance of what was happening, and their fear, the Poles kept alive. They even continued to read books. Their favorite reading...
Xavier Pruszynski's Russian Year, a brilliantly written travel book, includes a notable account of Russia's revolting treatment of the 2,000,000 Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski...
Even better is G for Genevieve, the breath-taking narrative of a pseudonymous Polish flyer whose family is still in Nazi-occupied Poland. Its true story: a hair-raising account of the author's attempt to get a plane to fight with. When he reported for duty (after two...
Exit Poles. The Finns, as near-enemies, had thus been given the coldest of brush-offs. Now up stepped the Poles, as near-allies, to get the warmest of brush-offs. Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk had been given the full red-carpet treatment. As he prepared to leave Washington he...
Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Italians, Belgians, Croats and onetime soldiers of Russia-Turkomans, Cossacks, Tartars, Armenians and Georgians. A unit of Axis Russians under White Russian Lieut. General Andrei A. Vlas-sov was reported swaggering around Vichy France with German uniforms, long sabres and red Cossack fur caps.