Tag Archives: Poland

Polish Paras

Issue Number: 5809

Operation Market Garden, 1944. The brave men of 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade jumped out of their transports above Arnhem, ready for red-hot action. Thousands of parachutes opened and floated through the skies with men who only had one thing on their mind, “finally we can get back at the Nazis!” Among their number was […]

Tomasz and the Return Journey

Issue Number: 5805

Scotland, 1940. Polish corporal, Tomasz Zielinski, has never been one to suffer bullies lightly. Now though, his hot‑headedness has landed him in a glasshouse. When a mysterious message arrives in his cell, an opportunity for freedom arises. Little does Tomasz know, his superiors have much bigger plans for him. His skills as a soldier are […]

Tomasz and the Tank Engine

Issue Number: 5537

September 1st, 1939. As the German army blitzkrieged its way across Poland, they didn’t have it all their way. The Polish were steadfast in their defence of their homeland, desperately trying to hold back the tide. But the Nazis would rue the day one man, Corporal Tomasz Zielinski, got on board an armoured train named […]

The Tygrys

Issue Number: 5475

The ORP Tygrys, or Tiger, was a Polish submarine outclassed by Poland’s modern subs, but its Commander, Leopold Swirski, was proud of the ship and his crew. Then September 1st, 1939 came, the Tiger bared its teeth and growled at the invading Nazi hordes. The sub fought tooth and nail to protect its homeland but […]

Canine Commando

Issue Number: 5413

Polish Sergeant Jakub Leszczuk is one of the last men defending Lwow in 1939, but as the Russian tanks roll in, his unit rescues a small puppy called Rebus from a collapsed building. It isn’t long before Rebus becomes far more than a lucky mascot for the escaping soldiers! As they retrain for the parachute […]

Stan’s War

Issue Number: 5303

Stanislaw Kowalski pulsed with anger. He was kicked out of his country, sent running to France before entering the British Army. But the furious Pole was burning to get into the fight and kick the Nazis right in their crooked teeth. Not even joining the fearsome Commandos could quench his thirst for vengeance. Stan’s war […]

Invasion Poland

Issue Number: 5261

Eighty years ago, in September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and set in motion a war that would claim all of Europe and the world beyond. But before that, in those early days, it seemed there was only Poland to defend against the fascists. And so, those brave enough took what arms they could to defend […]

Agents at War

Issue Number: 5157

SS Standartenfuhrer Rudi Reinstein smiled to himself, thinking he had just duped a dumb American into being a spy for the Nazi cause. But as he reached into his unusually light briefcase and found underwear in the place of his important Nazi documents, he realised it was him who had been duped! And so the […]

To Be a Pilot…

Issue Number: 5026

…that’s all Jan Solecik wanted. Trouble was, he’d been thrown off pilot training courses and was now stuck in the Polish Army, fighting alongside British troops in the North African desert. As he looked up at the aircraft which fought in the sky above him, not even he could imagine the strange series of events […]