A brief outline of the history of Polish military formations in the East. II Corps, III Corps, 4th Rifle Division, 5th Siberian Division, Caucasus Division. Warsaw [1921].

A brief outline of the history of Polish military formations in the East. II Corps, III Corps, 4th Rifle Division, 5th Siberian Division, Caucasian Division. Warsaw 1921; Nakł. Organizing Committee of the Convention.

Format:11x14.5cm. Pages:101.Dirt and small tear of cardboard cover, traces of flooding.

From the introduction: "It is safe to say that in the vast territory of the former Russian Empire there was no corner where military organizations would not have spontaneously formed. The outbreak of the Russian Revolution, like an electric spark, set in motion the slumbering national forces. Polish hearts trembled. "Poland is not yet lost" echoed throughout Russia, over which Poles were scattered, clad in gray uniforms, violently torn from their native land and families. The slogans of Russia's revolution, solemn-sounding as they were, seemed by themselves to bring us freedom and the opportunity to organize ourselves militarily to fight the other partitioners. But the appetites of the partitioners, which had been inflamed over hundreds of years, and the great joy at being freed from the tsarism closed the eyes of the Russians, who demanded, as it were, that Poles and other nations celebrate the triumphs with them and share the work of building a new great Russia. The joy was shared, but every Pole was thinking about the work on rebuilding his own Fatherland, already groaning 125 years in captivity..."