Walce (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy in softcover. Grey spine with red and white titles. Text in Polish.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 172pp b/w illustrations octavo paper. a presentation copy but illegible signature. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

First editions of these bilingual regimental histories. They feature many illustrations of tanks in training and combat and show both regiments's participation in the Normandy landings. We have only traced six copies of First and three of Second on WorldCat. The first and second Polish armoured regiments were formed in exile before joining the effort to liberate France on 1 August 1944. These volumes provide a snapshot of soldiers's daily lives, battlefield casualty statistics, route maps through occupied France, and even contain the sheet music for the first regiment's official march. 2 Pu k Pancerny focuses on photographs taken during the campaign, showing the remains of German ordnance, soldiers digging trenches, and their tanks in action. Conversely 1 Pu k Pancerny is a thorough description of their history, accompanying battlefield images with those taken during training and in liberated villages. Biega ski & Koz owski 4348, 4349. 2 works, oblong folio. With many half-tone photographic illustrations in text (some in colour); text in Polish and English. Original paper-covered boards, black cloth backstrips, half-tone photographic illustration mounted to front board of First, colour illustration to front board of Second. Title page of First inscribed "To my very dear Scotch parents. Faucke". Spine of First split at foot, both repaired at head, inner hinges starting in both vols but firm, boards lightly soiled and creased: a very good collection.