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.
David R. Stefancic is associate professor of history at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
"This book provides a wealth of information on the fighters." -- Florence Waszkelewicz, Polish American Journal "A welcome and important complement to the existing scholarship on modern Polish national consciousness." -- Anita Shelton, H-Net
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