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    An Ordinary Polish Boy: Journey to England
    An Ordinary Polish Boy: Journey to England
    An Ordinary Polish Boy: Journey to England
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    An Ordinary Polish Boy: Journey to England

    By Brendan Redko

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    AN
    ORDINARY
    POLISH BOY
    JOURNEY TO ENGLAND


    This is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy living in south-east Poland at the beginning of the Second World War. The small town he lives in becomes the site of a massive battle involving a million men from three armies (German, Polish and Russian).

    An Ordinary Polish Boy describes how the Germans took over the area and how they controlled the local population through murder and forced labour. It also describes what happened when they built the first extermination camp close to the boys town. It follows his journey after he was taken into forced labour from Berlin to Italy, where he eventually joined up with the Polish Second Corps, and finally to England. He arrived there as a refugee with thousands of other Poles who could not go back to their homes and families because of treaties signed at the end of the war which allowed Russia to annex part of eastern Poland and control most of Eastern Europe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateApr 9, 2013
    ISBN9781481782357
    An Ordinary Polish Boy: Journey to England
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    Brendan Redko

    Brendan Redko was born in Wolverhampton in 1955 and brought up in Bristol, England. After attending St Brendan’s College, he left school in 1972 and went to St Luke’s teacher training college in Exeter. After qualifying as a teacher, he worked as a steel erector for three years before gaining employment at Whitefield Fishponds School and then Bristol Metropolitan Academy, one of the schools in the successful Cabot Learning Federation. He has worked there as a teacher of Physical Education for the last thirty-two years. He lives with his partner, Ruth, and her son, Simon. He also has two children, Eddie and Kiri, and recently become a grandfather for the first time to Kiri’s son, Zachary. His biggest passion in life has always been sport, playing rugby to a good level before trying his skills at kick-boxing. He now spends most of his time coaching and organising school sports and activities as well as coaching and refereeing basketball in local leagues. His proudest achievement so far was winning a national award, The Daily Telegraph UK Sports Teacher of the Year, in 2006. His active life now includes fire spinning, a performing art which involves spinning balls of fire on the end of chains around your body in a variety of patterns. He likes to perform this to music on beaches in the summer. Brendan has always been a keen history student, and it was this interest which encouraged him to research this book. This is his first attempt at such a project, and he is particularly keen that it might provide a basic introduction and a few answers to anyone who wants to know a bit more about Polish history and maybe their own Polish ancestry.

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