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Geordie Hussar - the Polish Trail of a WW ll POW

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May 8th 2018
Hugh Patterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1917. At the age of eighty, in 1997, he bought himself an Apple Mac and started writing. Until that point in his life he had maintained a silence about wartime experiences. We, his family, were unaware of any detail. But then a rich story unfolded in the resulting modest memoir ‘Geordie Hussar’: five years of intrepi ... read more

Europe » Poland » Lesser Poland » Kraków

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Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century. Its golden age occurred in the 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of ... ... read more