The Man in the Middle: The Story of the Polish Resistance: 1940-45

xxi, 200 pp. "On the first of September 1939 forty-five German divisions supported by 15,000 aircraft attacked Poland and two weeks later, under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet agreement, the Russians occupied eastern Poland. Thus this strife-torn country was divided for the fourth time. Witold Sagajllo, an officer in the Polish Navy, decided, after the crushing defeat of Polish resistance to invasion on two fronts, that the only honourable thing to do was to escape to Britain where he would be able to continue to fight with the Polish forces in exile. This however proved to be an impossible dream and he soon found himself playing a vital part in the Polish underground resistance, fighting on two fronts against the Germans and the Russians... This is a dramatic account of how groups of Resistance fighters attempted to keep their country alive."