SOBOCIŃSKI Leon - On the debris of Smętek, with 36 illustrations. Warsaw 1947, published by B. Kądziela. 8, pp. 247, [1], plates 24....

SOBOCIŃSKI Leon - On the debris of Smętek, with 36 illustrations. Warsaw 1947, published by B. Kądziela. 8, p. 247, [1], t. 24. fawn cover of period with preserved booklet cover.
Covers slightly dusty, otherwise good condition. Cover brochure. designed by Z. Kosmowski. The book "concerns Sobocinski's two journeys to Warmia and Masuria in 1936 and 1946. The author was prompted to publish the reportages by: the need to popularize Masurian issues in the widest possible social circles, the need to oppose the pernicious Smetkova psychosis in the period of postwar development of Warmia and Masuria, as well as the desire to confront the Polish reconstruction of this region with the pre-war times, when it was intensely Germanized by the Germans and neglected by the Polish authorities" (Wikipedia).