The Polish Officer

About this book

September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitlers Wehrmacht Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris in the tenements of Warsaw with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules a world of danger treachery and betrayal. From the Trade Paperback edition.