Goodbye Poland

<p><strong>Goodbye Poland is a gripping true story of survival sacrifice and the quiet strength of a boy forced into manhood by war.</strong></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Stefan Maczka was born into a proud legacy-his father a Polish cavalry officer helped stop the Russian advance into Europe during the 1920 'Miracle of the Vistula.' That victory secured Poland's independence and earned the Maczkas a plot of land on the new frontier. But Stalin never forgot the humiliation.</p><p>In 1939 he got his revenge.</p><p>Overnight the Soviets rounded up the same families who had once defied them-ripping them from their homes loading them into cattle trucks and deporting them to the frozen wastelands of Siberia. <em>Goodbye Poland</em> is Stefan's story told in his own words exactly as he spoke-honest direct and impossible to forget.</p><p>More than a memoir it's a rare eyewitness account of Stalin's quiet war on the Polish people-a story still echoing today.</p><p><strong>Praise for Goodbye Poland:</strong></p><p>A remarkable account told without overdramatization.<br>I learnt more here than in any school history lesson.<br>One man's long long journey to freedom.<br>This story needs to be known.</p><p><strong>You've heard about the Western Front. You've read about the Holocaust.</strong><br><strong>What Stalin did to the Poles is happening again today in Ukraine.</strong></p>