A Polish Symphony: Biography of rare survivor of bloody battle for Poland - the murder of his family, the killing of his brother, Nazi imprisonment and later his life and loves across Europe.

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A Polish Symphony (ISMBN 0 950 561975). An Autobiography By B. M. Maciejewski with the foreword written by (Lt Colonel) Dr Steven Windmill. Bob Maciejewski is the brave and lucky survivor of the Warsaw Rising in 1944. First Limited Edition. Each book signed by the author. Price £10 with free post and packing (worldwide). 320 pages 119 photographs.


“A Polish Symphony” is like an orchestral symphony; written in four parts. The book portrays the true story of a rare survivor of the Warsaw Rising against Nazi occupation in 1944 – one of the bloodiest battles in recent history and one of the least recorded.

The first part of the book describes the author’s carefree life within Poland prior to the German invasion. The second part describes the occupation of Poland, which is quickly followed by the murder of the authors’ identical twin brother by the Nazi’s and the death of three uncles - two of whom perished in concentration camps, and one murdered on the streets of Warsaw – and the confiscation of the authors’ family store and family livelihood.

The author, Bob Maciejewski, became a resistance leader and fought the Germans before being captured. Following the collapse of the Rising, the author discovered he was one of only eight cadet-officers destined to survive the early resistance fighting and later the sixty-three days of the uprising itself; he and many others were but uniformed civilians fighting seasoned German SS Divisions with nothing but hand weapons, knives and courage.

The next part describes his near starvation in a German prisoner-of-war camp near Bremen before released and entering Italy to graduate as an Army Officer. He entered Italy as a virgin soldier. He left as a man!

The final part describes the authors’ life, loves, and the hardships he has endured as he settled in initially in Scotland and later England. With six children and six books to his name, the author finishes the book as he enters his Winter Years and looks back upon his life.

All books are also available at FOYLE’S in London.

“A POLISH SYMPHONY”
By B. M. Maciejewski

ISBN 0 9505619 7 5

Published by:
Allegro Press
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South Croydon
CR2 6BN
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