Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 49
... rifle and sent off on foot to join an artillery regiment stationed in Kutno near Warsaw . He crossed the country from east to west in winter , reporting to the local garrison commanders on the way , begging his food in the villages and ...
... rifle and sent off on foot to join an artillery regiment stationed in Kutno near Warsaw . He crossed the country from east to west in winter , reporting to the local garrison commanders on the way , begging his food in the villages and ...
Page 125
... rifles , haggard but exultant women , schoolboys , and even a poet in a battered top - hat , all singing a rousing song which was presumably the ' Marseillaise ' : ' Citizens to arms ! The day of glory has arrived ! ' To the beating of ...
... rifles , haggard but exultant women , schoolboys , and even a poet in a battered top - hat , all singing a rousing song which was presumably the ' Marseillaise ' : ' Citizens to arms ! The day of glory has arrived ! ' To the beating of ...
Page 133
... rifles and revol- vers in their hands . Then came shelled buildings , the Gorbaty Bridge , the Zoo wreathed in smoke from burning houses , bullet- riddled tavern signs and overturned trams . Everything was misted over with a winter haze ...
... rifles and revol- vers in their hands . Then came shelled buildings , the Gorbaty Bridge , the Zoo wreathed in smoke from burning houses , bullet- riddled tavern signs and overturned trams . Everything was misted over with a winter haze ...
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