PĘKOSŁAW-BORAKOWSKI Władysław - Legenda [first edition 1924] [Legions].

Warsaw 1924. published by the Perzyński, Niklewicz and S-ka Bookstore and Nut Composition. 13.5x20 cm, pp. 348, III, softcover. Good condition (stains and tears on cover, ownership stamp, loose block, no pre-title page, large stamp on inside cover: Prize awarded by lottery (...) 1930 (...) Gazeta Warszawska).

First edition. According to the information on the title page, the book was written (...) in 1915-1918, during the Great War, in a magnate's palace and a peasant's hut, in trenches and on marches, in encampments and on battlefields, finished in Zhovkva in 1922.

"Legend" is not a novel and is not a collection of novellas. "Legend" is a description of the history of the Polish ranks, formed under the Russian partition back in 1914. The dates and facts are strictly historical, and the feelings expressed in "Legend" are the feelings of those who, sometimes in a completely hopeless moment, with some fierce obstinacy, with the faith of madmen, fought for the Independence and unification of the Fatherland. The hero of "Legend" is the Polish Army, the warp - the love of war, the love of Poland. [from the preface]