GŁOWACKI Ludwik. Defense of Warsaw and Modlin against the background of the September campaign. Warsaw 1960. edition I . Publishing house of the Ministry of National Defense. Pp. 274, [2], 1 p . folding plates; cm.
Hard cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition, minor rubbing of binding.
Ludwik Glowacki's book is a monograph devoted to the organization and fights of regular military units in the defense of the capital. The work is based on documents of the "Warsaw" army, Polish and German sources concerning the campaign, as well as on accounts, carefully collected by the Author from participants in the September campaign and the defense of Warsaw, holding positions at various levels of command, from platoon commanders on up.
Title card designed by Andrzej Kowalewski.
Glowacki Ludwik (1904-1986) - historian, colonel; 1951 convicted in the trial of generals; custodian of the National Library in Warsaw; Warfare in Lublin Region in 1939.
