Recollections of a Soldier of the 13th Wilno Uhlan Regiment

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Partitioned Poland

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Lilioza Sobocińska, Jadwiga Szyłkiewicz

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Discover the history of a fight for the independence of Poland through the eyes of a soldier. Writing his memoirs fifty years after the end of [the First World War], Stefan Szyłkiewicz did not expect that his desire to save his wartime participation from obscurity would bring reprisals against him and his family.

Certificate no. 3552 of the Silver Cross of the War Order of Virtuti Militari awarded to Stefan Szyłkiewicz, May 1, 1933

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