Jan III Sobiesky, King of Poland, saved Vienna from defeat by the Ottoman Turks in 1683. With the walls of the city about to be breached, Sobiesky led his Husaria cavalry in a massive charge that broke the Turkish battle line, scattering their forces in disarray.
Centuries later, Polish code-breakers working with the British at Bletchley Park, the Government Code and Cypher School, contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany by helping to destroy the power of Enigma, the Reich's principal crypto-system, a magisterial achievement which considerably shortened the war. The Poles developed the first "bomba" that inspired the British "Bombe", the main tool used to decipher the Third Reich's encrypted Enigma messages.
The West, however, had not answered Poland's desperate call in 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded and cruelly destroyed her Second Republic. P.P.K. Stone sets the record straight from an intimate perspective--read this wonderfully personal account of a great nation's struggles! MacMaster
P.P.K. Stone was born in Europe and educated in Europe and the Americas, has worked in government, industry, and the non-profit sector and has authored a number of scientific works. Stone has lived in many countries, is comfortable in several languages and now lives in semi-retirement in the Rocky Mountain west.
Bestselling Books:The Last Train: The Rise and Fall of the Polish Second Republic and the Subsequent Demise of Poland's Gentry.
Bestselling Books:The Last Train: The Rise and Fall of the Polish Second Republic and the Subsequent Demise of Poland's Gentry.