STOLZMAN Charles Bogumir. Guerrilla warfare or war for the rising peoples most appropriate. By...a former Polish Army captain of artillery first class. Paris and Leipzig 1844 . 1st ed. byBrockhaus and Avenarius. pp . [8], XXIV, 239, [1]; 21.5cm, illustrations, tables, plates of figures 3 (lithographs illus.), map of Poland (lithograph illus. colored linearly).
Hardcover half leather with gilt on spine. Good condition, minor rubbing of binding, signature on title page, minor map tear.
Gocel 2534. The book treats the principles of guerrilla warfare, pyrotechnics and engineering works, and includes a pioneering rocket artillery project. It was smuggled into occupied Poland and considered essential reading in insurgent preparations. "Undoubtedly, this work by Stolzman had an impact on the way battles were fought in the January Uprising" (PSB).
Thebook was accompanied by a map (measuring 43.5 of 47.0 cm plus margins)showing Poland within its pre-partition borders, with the division into five corps and the designation of the command centers of the future Polish uprising in Torun, Sandomierz, Brest-on-the-Bug, Minsk-Belarus and Zhytomyr.
Karol Bogumił Stolzman (1793-1854) - democratic activist, artillery officer in the November Uprising, member of the Patriotic Society. During his emigration in France, he was associated with Joachim Lelewel. He was a member of the Carbonist union. In 1833 he was chief of staff of the Holy Hufflepuff, composed of Polish emigrants trying unsuccessfully to bring aid to the Frankfurt uprising through Switzerland. He was also a co-founder of the Young Poland organization. In 1844-1845 he was a member of the Union of Polish Emigration. In 1846 he joined the TDP. He was also a theoretician of insurrectionary guerrilla warfare, resulting in the 1844 publication "Partisanship, or War for the Rising Peoples Most Appropriate." In 1834, sentenced by the Russian authorities to be hanged for participation in the November Uprising
