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Parachuting into Poland, 1944: Memoir of a Secret Mission with Jozef Retinger

Parachuting into Poland, 1944: Memoir of a Secret Mission with Jozef Retinger

Paperback

AviationWorld War II

ISBN10: 0786474602
ISBN13: 9780786474608
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 11 2013
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr. Jozef Retinger. The goal of the mission was to persuade the Polish underground forces and political leadership to accept that it was imperative to start negotiating with the Soviets right away, as they were now to be considered Poland's allies and had the full support of the British and Americans. The story culminates in Operation Wildhorn III, in which Chciuk and Retinger were picked up in Poland by a British plane that landed just a short distance from a significant detachment of German forces, and flew them to safety.

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