Book description:
General Władysław Anders has taken a permanent place in the Polish national pantheon among the most distinguished Polish commanders of the 20th century. Until the end of his life, he remained a guardian of the memory of the victims of the Katyn Massacre. His fame came with the victorious 1944 Italian campaign and Monte Cassino Battle. His course of life encompassed the First Polish Corps in Great War s Russia, the 1918-1919 Greater Poland Uprising, the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik war, the September 1939 battles, imprisonment in Soviet Russia 1939-1941, and commandership of Polish 2nd Corpse in the Mediterranean. After 1945, he spent a quarter of a century in exile. The General has become a symbol of struggle and unwavering perseverance - despite the political realities of Cold War - towards the idea of Polish sovereignty.