SIEROCIŃSKI Józef [opr.] - Polish Army in France. History of General Haller's troops abroad [1929] [publisher's cover].

Warsaw 1929. 23x31 cm, pp. 248, black and white photographs in the text, publisher's cloth binding with gilt. Good condition (a few tape stitching, rubbing of the binding, cracks in the cloth and a completed loss on the spine).

First edition. Richly illustrated with period photographs, history of the Blue Army, compiled by Jozef Sierocinski (1891-1955), Polish Army officer, adjutant to General Jozef Haller, cavalier of the Order of Virtuti Militari.

"General Haller's army was forming in both hemispheres. The blue uniform shone brightly across the Ocean in the United States, where countless numbers of Falcons rushed to the banners of a reborn Poland. Blue Siberian Divisions formed and fought among the snows and taiga of Asia, on the graves of the martyrs of all Polish uprisings. The ices of Murman saw the heroic Polish divisions, which forced their way through all hells to France far away, there to raise arms in defense of the immortal ideal. Everywhere, in all corners of Russia, in the Caucasus, on the Black Sea, in Kuban, on the Chinese frontier, on the Pacific Ocean, in Manchuria and Shanghai, in far South America, in Brazil - everywhere there were handfuls of brave, rushing under the Polish banners." [from the foreword]