Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (May 1913, Zhytomyr - 18 February 2005, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a historian of Poland, Russia and modern Europe. Born in Zhytomir, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Dziewanowski grew up and studied in interwar Poland at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 1937-39 he was a foreign correspondent in Berlin, covering the Anschluss with Austria, the Munich Conference, and the German occupation of the Sudetenland. During the German invasion of Poland, Dziewanowski served as a Polish cavalry platoon leader. Later he served in England as an instructor/interpreter at a school for paratroopers and saboteurs, as an editor of a secret radio station working with the resistance in Poland, as a BBC news commentator, and, in Washington, as an aide to the Polish military attache. After the war, he chose to remain in exile rather than return to communist Poland.