KOZICKI Stanislaw - History of the National League (period 1887-1907) [London 1964].

London 1964; "Polish Thought." 14.5x21.5 cm, pp. 622, hardcover with wrapper. Very good condition.

A study of the history of the National League, a secret national organization crucial to the formation of the national movement in Poland under the partitions. The author, who was a close associate of Roman Dmowski, presents the genesis, structure and activities of the National League, founded in 1887 in Switzerland as a continuation of earlier patriotic initiatives. He describes its influence on the politics of National Democracy, the struggle for the national consciousness of Poles, and its attitude toward Russia and Germany.

Rescued from the conflagration of the war, the typescript of Stanislaw Kozicki's work "History of the National League" reached London several years ago. (...) Kozicki's book covers the unknown or little-known history of the first twenty years (1887-1907) of the activities of the secret but highly influential ideological and political organization, the National League. (...) Kozicki's source work on the origins of the League and the organizational and political work that made it possible to carry out the program to regain independence is based on mostly non-existent archives and hence has the value of a first-rate document. [from the foreword]