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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 507410, member: 649"]<i>Stones for the Rampart, </i>aka <i>Stones on the Barricade,</i> (<b>ENGLISH VERSION</b>) by Aleksander Kaminski.</p><p><br /></p><p>This book was originally written in Polish under the title <i>Kamienie na Szaniec </i>in 1943. I've been looking for the 1944 English language version for several years now and have never yet found one. It tells the true life story of a group of scouts called ''Szare Szeregi'' (Gray Ranks) during the early years of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. My teenage father was a member of this group all the way through the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, after which he was captured and placed in a German POW camp for the remainder of WW2. It's difficult to find much info written in English about the Gray (aka Grey) Ranks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only know a smattering of Polish words and phrases and could never get through the book in Polish, even with the help of Google translate (which doesn't handle Polish very well).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 507410, member: 649"][I]Stones for the Rampart, [/I]aka [I]Stones on the Barricade,[/I] ([B]ENGLISH VERSION[/B]) by Aleksander Kaminski. This book was originally written in Polish under the title [I]Kamienie na Szaniec [/I]in 1943. I've been looking for the 1944 English language version for several years now and have never yet found one. It tells the true life story of a group of scouts called ''Szare Szeregi'' (Gray Ranks) during the early years of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. My teenage father was a member of this group all the way through the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, after which he was captured and placed in a German POW camp for the remainder of WW2. It's difficult to find much info written in English about the Gray (aka Grey) Ranks. I only know a smattering of Polish words and phrases and could never get through the book in Polish, even with the help of Google translate (which doesn't handle Polish very well).[/QUOTE]
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