The Miracle on the Vistula by Elton Martyn (.ePUB)
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The Miracle on the Vistula: How Poland Stopped the Red Army and Saved Western Civilisation by Elton Martyn
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Overview: On August 13, 1920, Soviet scouts reached the outskirts of Warsaw. Government ministries were packing their archives. Diplomatic legations were preparing to flee. The Red Army — fresh from the most rapid advance in modern European military history — stood within artillery range of the Polish capital, and Lenin had already appointed the revolutionary committee that would govern a Soviet Poland. The fall of Warsaw seemed not merely possible but imminent.
It did not fall.
In one of the most extraordinary reversals in military history, Marshal Józef Piłsudski launched a counter-offensive so audacious that his own officers thought it reckless. What they did not know — and what a team of brilliant mathematicians in Warsaw’s Saxon Palace had discovered by reading the enemy’s encrypted communications — was that the Soviet advance contained a fatal flaw. Piłsudski knew where to strike. He struck.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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