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Polish Invasion Pruszynski, Ksawery
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- EAN
- 9781843410485
- ISBN
- 9781843410485
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Birlinn, The Limited
ISBN-10
1843410486
ISBN-13
9781843410485
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79832891
Product Key Features
Book Title
Polish Invasion
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Military / World War II, Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (See Also Travel / Maps & Road Atlases)
Genre
Reference, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.5308691409411
Synopsis
This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the mutual impact of Poles and Scots in wartime Scotland. The author discusses how a real affection grew out of initial misunderstanding: '[the Pole] took the other for a kind of Englishman, and was rewarded by being taken for a kind of Russian'. He records warm Scottish hospitality, and friendships in which each side tried to explain the complexities of their national history to the other., The Scots were until recently accustomed to think of themselves as an emigrant nation. With the great exception of the Irish immigration into the industrial west of Scotland in the 19th century, they had almost no experience of hosting a large group of non-Scots until the Second World War. So the arrival in 1940 of tens of thousands of Polish servicemen - soldiers, sailors and airmen - was an enormous and ultimately liberating cultural shock. Vividly 'foreign', with their exotic uniforms and strange language, the Poles spread out across camps and bases mainly in the east and southeast of Scotland. In the course of their stay, which was to last almost five years, they injected Scottish rural and small-town life with a new excitement which is still remembered - mostly very fondly - by the older generation. They were the survivors of the Polish forces who had fought the Germans in their own country and then fought them again in France in 1940. Churchill decreed that the troops who escaped across the Channel after the fall of France should be based in Scotland. Here they guarded the coast against invasion, retrained and eventually took part in the Allied landings in Normandy and the campaigns which followed. Many of the men came from Poland's eastern provinces which had been seized by the Soviet Union in 1939, and after the war, thousands chose to remain in Scotland. This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the mutual impact of Poles and Scots in wartime Scotland. As he says, real affection grew out of initial misunderstanding: '[the Pole] took the other for a kind of Englishman, and was rewarded by being taken for a kind of Russian'. He records warm Scottish hospitality, and friendships in which each side tried to explain the complexities of their national history to the other., The Scots were until recently accustomed to think of themselves as an emigrant nation. With the great exception of the Irish immigration into the industrial west of Scotland in the 19th century, they had almost no experience of hosting a large group of non-Scots until the Second World War. So the arrival in 1940 of tens of thousands of Polish servicemen - soldiers, sailors and airmen - was an enormous and ultimately liberating cultural shock. Vividly 'foreign', with their exotic uniforms and strange language, the Poles spread out across camps and bases mainly in the east and southeast of Scotland. In the course of their stay, which was to last almost five years, they injected Scottish rural and small-town life with a new excitement which is still remembered - mostly very fondly - by the older generation. They were the survivors of the Polish forces who had fought the Germans in their own country and then fought them again in France in 1940. Churchill decreed that the troops who escaped across the Channel after the fall of France should be based in Scotland. Here they guarded the coast against invasion, retrained and eventually took part in the Allied landings in Normandy and the campaigns which followed. Many of the men came from Poland's eastern provinces which had been seized by the Soviet Union in 1939, and after the war, thousands chose to remain in Scotland. This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the mutual impact of Poles and Scots in wartime Scotland. As he says, real affection grew out of initial misunderstanding: ' the Pole] took the other for a kind of Englishman, and was rewarded by being taken for a kind of Russian'. He records warm Scottish hospitality, and friendships in which each side tried to explain the complexities of their national history to the other.
LC Classification Number
D811
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