Armies in Exile

The Polish Struggle for Nation and Nationalism

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East European Monographs

Due/Published December 2005, 320 pages,

ISBN 0880335653

Through three historical periods -- the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and World War II -- Poles were forced to fight in other nations' armies to defend a Poland that had been erased from the map. Stefancic addresses such questions as how the soldiers' maintained their national identity while serving in a foreign army and the ways in which they related to foreign cultures.