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As this week marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, it’s the perfect time to honor one of its most legendary participants…
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As this week marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, it’s the perfect time to honor one of its most legendary participants…
Check out the live stork cams at the end of this post! In Poland, the sight of a stork circling overhead or tending to its…
Ciapek was adopted by Polish 305 Squadron as their official pet mascot during World War II. As former RAF officer C. H. Ward-Jackson wrote in…
We’re wrapping up our look at Polish Easter traditions with Śmigus-Dyngus Day. Celebrated on Easter Monday, the day after Easter, it’s also known as lany…
Continuing our look at Polish Easter traditions, today we explore the blessing of the Easter basket, or Święconka (Święcenie pokarmow wiełkanocnych). After the strictures of…
We’d like to share this mesmerizing film footage of parachutists of the First Allied Airborne Army jumping into the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden, September…
“Today, a new chapter opens in the history of the Atlantic Alliance and Europe.” With these words, Poland joined NATO on 12 March 1999. NATO…
One of our bestselling books is the award-winning 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron, by Arkady Fiedler, in an all-new English translation…
Thanks to R.G. Poulussen (@rgpoulussen) for posting this rare film footage from February 1944 of a Spitfire Mark IXC from Polish 302 Squadron in flight:…
On February 1, 1944, the AK (Armia Krajowa, or Home Army), which was the military arm of the Polish Underground, mounted a successful operation to…
Last week, the Wall St. Journal gave a glowing review of the new Polish film based on Władysław Reymont’s sweeping novel The Peasants, about a…
January 27 was designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the UN General Assembly in 2005. That date marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January…
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