[dedication] SKIBIŃSKI Franciszek - Pierwsza Pancerna. Warsaw 1970.

Author: SKIBIŃSKI Franciszek

Title: First Armored

• Place of issue: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1970
• Publisher : Czytelnik
• Number of pages: 389, [5]
• Illustrations, maps: illustrations outside the text, maps and sketches in the text
• Size: 20.5 cm
• Binding: hard cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, decorative cover, preserved booklet front cover
• Condition: minor rubbing/scuffing of binding, taping of 2 pages with tape (no harm to text)
• ISBN: ---

Description:

On the pre-title page the author's dedication to Eugeniusz Nowak.

The cover was designed by Andrzej Radziejowski. Photos by Franciszek Skibiński, Marian Walentynowicz and archival photos.

Maps and charts according to the author's sketches were made by Zdzislaw Topolewski.

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Eugeniusz Nowak (1943-2023) - professional soldier, historian, museologist. From 2001-2012 employee of the Department of Militaria of the National Museum in Cracow, which he headed from 2001-2008. He was the author of books and articles, among the most important are: "Reconnaissance Squadron of the 10th Cavalry Brigade 1938 - 1939" (Krakow, 1999) and "10th Dragons Regiment" (Krakow, 2005-2006). He was also a cartoonist, and his "crannies" were published in Przekrój in 1999.