Antoni Joe Podolski, Charlotte May, Jeremy Podolski, Tim Russell, Jeff Podolski, Nigel Podolski
23 Days: A Memoir of 1939
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(Yellow Wheel Publishing LTD June 27, 2014)
, 2 edition
23 Days are the wartime memoirs of Antoni Jozef (Joe) Podolski
written by him some 44 years after the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939.
It records his fight against the invading Russian Army, his subsequent
capture, imprisonment and brutal interrogation before being sentenced
to death and spending 23 days on death row in a prison in the town of Orsha, Russia.
A reprieve condemned him to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic Ural
Mountains. His subsequent escape to England via Finland is described
followed by details of his return to Europe through Lithuania as a
member of SOE. Finally a reunion with Polish Forces in the Middle
East was made possible after the Nazi invasion of Russia caused the
Soviets to become an uneasy ally of Poland.
He returned to England once more and became a fighter pilot with the
Polish Air Force at the tail end of hostilities, all by the ripe old age of 22.
He died in Norfolk in 1999 aged 76.
written by him some 44 years after the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939.
It records his fight against the invading Russian Army, his subsequent
capture, imprisonment and brutal interrogation before being sentenced
to death and spending 23 days on death row in a prison in the town of Orsha, Russia.
A reprieve condemned him to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic Ural
Mountains. His subsequent escape to England via Finland is described
followed by details of his return to Europe through Lithuania as a
member of SOE. Finally a reunion with Polish Forces in the Middle
East was made possible after the Nazi invasion of Russia caused the
Soviets to become an uneasy ally of Poland.
He returned to England once more and became a fighter pilot with the
Polish Air Force at the tail end of hostilities, all by the ripe old age of 22.
He died in Norfolk in 1999 aged 76.