A Forgotten Odyssey

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This site is connected to ‘A Forgotten Odyssey’, a recent documentary film by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. It deals with the forgotten tragedy of 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. Some 120,000 of these escaped through Persia in 1942 as soldiers of Anders Army and their families – and eventually made their way to the West because their pre-war homeland was consigned by the Allies to remain under the hated Soviet regime.

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Military map showing troop positions, movements, and river crossings near Wesel, Germany during Operation Varsity & Plunder on 24 March 1945.

At War’s End

Introduction The final days were a mixture of jubilation, exhaustion and terror of what was to come in most parts of Europe, the Balkans and Middle East. Reynolds (2006) suggested that the ‘Big Three’ (Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States) wanted to maintain their wartime alliance on the basis for post-war international cooperation, even…

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Operations

Market Garden: The Island

Tim Saunders’ companion volumes vividly retrace Operation Market Garden’s Nijmegen and “Island” battles, blending maps, accounts, and analysis of its failures and Polish role.

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