With a thoroughness not even attempted at the time by his German partner in the west, 20 000 officers in the Polish army who had surrendered to superior Soviet ... their uniforms still intact. Wajda ...

Stop the clock in 1939 and he was an eccentric army officer. Stop it in July 1940 ... A French diplomat remembered that de Gaulle, surveying the devastated condition of the Soviet Union in 1944, ...