Salvete Omnes,
a short posting of the summer type
in the past I devoted 2 posts - in 2020, a detailed one here and the funeral one here - to the commemoration of the last stand battle of Zadworze and its aftermath.
Today I just want to commemorate the event - one of the few truly Thermopylae-like battles in our Polish military history.
and some unusual illustrations showing the fighting in Zadworze done by a painter Mieczyslaw Iwanicki (in the photo below), who was a volunteer soldier of the Abraham Detachment during the very war.
painted and published in 1938 in a magazine titled 'Wschod' (The East) - Lwow, Stanislawow, Tarnopol.
With all those machine guns and artillery, repeating carbines and grenades etc I wonder how many horses died and were wounded in this heroic fight...
Hail to the heroes - Pacem Aeternam to the fallen
Valete
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