MACKIEWICZ - YEARS OF HOPE September 17, 1939 - July 5, 1945

MACKIEWICZ Stanislaw

YEARS OF HOPE

september17 ,1939 - july 5, 1945

London br. [1950], pp. 216, format 14x21.5 cm

"In 1945 Poland found itself in the abyss of defeat. This happened not only because of bad fortune, but also as a result of our own mistakes, the erroneous policies of the managers of our state and the erroneous mood of society. (...) So we can wring our hands and claim that we were perfidiously deceived and abandoned by the allies, and this will be true. But what is called state reason does not consist in ex post wailing over the perversity of accomplices, but in the ability to predict whether the arrangements offered to us will or will not be kept by the counterparty. And those who undertook to direct our destinies not only politically predict, but politically think did not know how to think." Stanislaw Cat-Mackiewicz

HARD COVER COVER in contemporary half leather, horsetail with raised gilt, gilt and gilt stamping. MARBLED PAPERBOARD. CARD BORDERS GILT

BDB-/ condition of initial k. after conservation in spine, NICE pieces