Parachuting into Poland 1944

<p> This firsthand account never before published in English details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr. Jozef Retinger. The goal of the mission was to persuade the Polish underground forces and political leadership to accept that it was imperative to start negotiating with the Soviets right away as they were now to be considered Poland's allies and had the full support of the British and Americans. The story culminates in Operation Wildhorn III in which Chciuk and Retinger were picked up in Poland by a British plane that landed just a short distance from a significant detachment of German forces and flew them to safety.</p>