Storm from the East. Memories from Kiev (1918-1920).
With a foreword by Prof. St. Estreicher. With 12 illustrations. Kraków 1925. nakł. Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza. 8, pp. XIII, 512, [1], plates 10 illustrations, ppb. with fragment of original cover pasted on frontispiece.
Dampstain and some rubbing of covers, traces of soiling and some dampstain of pages. A shocking description of events in Ukraine, the terror of the peasantry and the Bolsheviks against the Polish population, especially the nobility and landed gentry, pogroms that claimed thousands of victims, cruelty, pacification and destruction of manors, farms, settlements, monuments, book collections. Photographs include 12 Polish borderland manors from Kiev. The book rated highly as a document of the events of the era by the author of the extensive introduction, Stanislaw Estreicher.
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