The stripped and bound prisoner was thrown into the fire, where he roasted alive for a while. Then the priests took out the living victim and opened the chest with a knife to tear the still beating heart out of her chest. Description of an extremely sadistic execution? Too. But most of all, a typica
On July 10, 1942, a battered convoy P.Q.17 arrived in Arkhangelsk. Of the 36 vessels, only 11 British seamen, who risked their lives to provide supplies to the Soviets, were forced to stay in a gloomy city in the far north for two months. They timidly hoped that, as in every port, at least the compa
The Polish Peoples Republic was undoubtedly a country of milk and honey. We had the best cars (Fiat 125p set three world speed records), the tallest buildings (PKiN was the second largest in Europe) and the most beautiful women (Aneta Kręglicka became Miss World in 1989). And we trained only spies i
You could have been saved from your Ottoman captivity by rich relatives or by a lucky accident. A few Poles, however, had a better idea - a daring escape! They kidnapped galleys, murdered torturers, disguised themselves as monks ... there are even reports of our compatriot who escaped in a balloon!