Red Shadow. A Physician's Memoir of the Soviet Occpation of Eastern Poland, 1944 - 1956 by Zygmunt Klukowski.
On July 6, 1944 the Soviet army drove the German occpaing forces from the small town of Szczebrzeszyn in eastern Poland. Sadly, it soon become clear that this "liberation" was simply the beginning of a new occupation. Many of his friends died, and his own son was executed.
Dr. Klukowski's diary - located in 1991 after an extensive search and translated by his son George and grandson Andrew - is a vivid recounting of the Polish resistance against commnism, marked by tragedy, triumph, and the strong will of the people in the face of brutal Soviet occupation.
Hardcover, 1997.
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