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The Polish Officer (1995) is a novel by Alan Furst. In September 1939, as Warsaw falls to the Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited to Poland's...

79000°E / 54.77222; 31.79000 The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia...

This article presents the military ranks of the entire Polish Armed Forces as well as the rank insignia used today. The system of rank insignia is a direct...

when Fyodor attacks him. Confronting Grushenka and the Polish officer, Dmitri finds that the officer has been gambling all evening, and a neglected Grushenka...

The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (Polish: Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie)...

The following is a list of Polish generals, that is the people who held the rank of general, as well as those who acted as de facto generals by commanding...

The Lion of the Bourse (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, Kingdom of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent) Colonel Anton Vyborg, Polish military...

National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński described him as "the first Polish officer in NATO." Kukliński was born in Warsaw to a working-class family...

through the Resistance channels. His escort was a Polish officer. When he arrives in London, the RAF man is interrogated by an officer of the Free French...

beyond the land reform. The newly recreated Polish army, largely staffed with Soviet officers (most of the Polish officer corps present in the east was...

Jews who assisted Poles during the Soviet occupation. Among the thousands of Polish officers killed by the Soviet NKVD in the Katyń massacre there were 500–600...

Bonaparte, Polish military units were formed, bearing Polish military ranks and commanded by Polish officers. They became known as the "Polish Legions"...

of equipment of Polish Special Forces List of equipment of Polish Air Force List of ships of the Polish Navy Modernization of the Polish Armed Forces List...

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet...

Colditz houses first Polish, then British, Dutch and French prisoners. Among the British are Pat Reid and Senior British Officer Colonel Richmond. Richmond...

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6...

known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic...

The Polish Workers' Party (Polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution...

and France when Polish forces found French Roland surface-to-air missiles that the international press reported that Polish officers claimed had been...

prisoner-of-war camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee. The camp was created...