EIZENMAN Mieczyslaw (a.k.a. Or-Si) - War Frills [Brussels 1946] [ill. Marian Walentynowicz].

Brussels 1946. 12x15.5 cm, pp. 32, black and white illustrations in the text, softcover. Very good condition (small spots near staples on a few pages).

Illustrated by Marian Walentynowicz.

"The reader, fond of the puffed-up gibberish about the Polish soldier with which he has been fed for several years, lightly swallowing "heroism", "glory", "unyielding attitude" and many, many other soldierly virtues - had better not take this booklet in hand. Why should he be bitter? For a different reader this collection is intended.For one whose pompous platitudes have always made him nauseous, a perpetual mocker with an uncommon sense of humor, a swashbuckler who is relentless both in battle and at the dancings, fearsome to enemies and virgins, a clever man who can handle anyone anywhere, a soldier who is pissed off at the army, but wears his black epaulettes with nonchalant pride - in a word: for my comrade-in-arms, a soldier of the 1st Armored Division." [excerpt from the preface]