It Was Worth It: The Adventures of A Polish POW in World War II by Kazimir Ladny
Requirements: epub reader, 983kb
Overview: This is my life story. A Polish soldier who survived the inferno of the Blitzkrieg in September 1939, when Poland was massacred by the German Nazi armies in cooperation with the Russians.
When I went to school I learned about the wars in the Dark Ages. Much has been written about the barbarism and the bestialities committed by countless invaders. At that time I thought that this was just history, back in early times people were primitive and uncivilized. Those times were past. Today in our modem, highly-civilized society such atrocities would be unthinkable. How wrong I was.
In most books written about wars, the authors depict fearless knights in shining armor riding forth in glory and bravery. In this book I am just an ordinary soldier who went through the horror of war. There were millions of people who went through the war and many who had even more horrible stories to tell and many who didn’t live to tell them. They perished and took their stories with them to their graves. I went through hell. I was scared and prayed a lot. I managed to stay alive and now, many years later, have written a book about my unforgettable years.
I was taken prisoner of war by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Hitler and Stalin divided Poland among themselves and later decided to exchange POWs. Because I was born in the western part of Poland which was occupied by the Germans, I was sent to Germany. There I lived a dramatic life in various camps — with several escapes — until the end of the war in 1945.
After my last escape I met and fell in love with a German war widow who had helped me while I was in hiding. We were married after my liberation and in 1951 we emigrated to the United States of America.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, WWII
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