Beautiful and bold. What was the life of the war girls like?

In the war world, seemingly purely male, they had to find a place for themselves. Instead of going to school, they had to fight. You can read about their complicated fate in Łukasz Modelski's book "Girls of War", which is an award in our competition.

In today's competition, we have three copies of Łukasz Modelski's book entitled "Girls of War" for you. To win one of them, you need to answer all the questions correctly and have a bit of luck during the drawing. Remember that you will find all the answers in our articles.

In our competition, you can win one of the three copies of Łukasz Modelski's book "War Girls" (Znak Horyzont 2017).

The competition is now over. We thank all participants. The list of winners will appear in the next newsletter. You can find the full rules of the competitions HERE.

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