Across the Atlantic

During the summer of 1934 two Polish amateur-pilots Joe (Józef) and Ben (Bolesław) Adamowicz who immigrated to the US more than twenty years earlier flew over the Atlantic on a single-engine plane Bellanca. Their trip took them from New York to Warsaw; they were the first Poles to do so. They became instant celebrities favorites of the journalists photographers and the public on both sides of the Atlantic. Alas their triumph was short-lived followed by a fall from grace to imprisonment and bankruptcy. This richly illustrated book brings to life their forgotten story. Written by a historian journalist and educator Zofia Reklewska-Braun and director writer scholar and author of over 50 books Dr. Kazimierz Braun this book was originally published in Poland in 2011.