A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the
refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential
role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the
Allies after the war.
After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots,
soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating
their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known as
the Kosciuszko Squadron, after the elite unit in which many had
flown back home. Their thrilling exploits and fearless flying made
them celebrities in Britain, where they were “adopted” by
socialites and seduced by countless women, even as they yearned for
news from home. During the Battle of Britain, they downed more
German aircraft than any other squadron, but in a stunning twist at
the war’s end, the Allies rewarded their valor by abandoning Poland
to Joseph Stalin. This moving, fascinating book uncovers a crucial
forgotten chapter in World War II–and Polish–history.
關於作者：
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud are coauthors of The Murrow
Boys, a biography of the correspondents whom Edward R. Murrow hired
before and during World War II to create CBS News. Olson is the
author of Freedom''s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil
Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. Cloud, a former Washington
bureau chief for Time, was also a national political correspondent,
White House correspondent, Saigon bureau chief, and Moscow
correspondent for Time. Olson was a Moscow correspondent for the
Associated Press and White House correspondent for the Baltimore
Sun. She and Cloud are married and live in Washington, D.C.
From the Hardcover edition.
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