Open AccessEugeniusz Quirini de Saalbrück, Kartki z działalności żołnierzy polskich we Francji i ich ewakuacja do Wielkiej Brytanii w czerwcu 1940 r.
Author(s) -
Danuta Quirini-Popławska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przegląd historyczno-wojskowy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1640-6281
DOI - 10.32089/wbh.phw.2021.3(277).0007
Subject(s) - surrender , tragedy (event) , saint , government (linguistics) , law , memoir , political science , art , port (circuit theory) , theology , humanities , history , art history , philosophy , literature , engineering , linguistics , electrical engineering
Memoirs of Eugeniusz Quirini de Saalbrück illuminate his activity as a cultural and educational clerk in 1940 at the Officers’ Rallying Station in Camp de Carpiagne, the unexpected surrender of France was a great tragedy, Polish soldiers wanted to fight and refused to lay down their arms. The Polish government-in-exile decided to continue the fight with English allies and to evacuate soldiers, including those from Camp de Carpiagne to the port of Saint Jean de Luz, from where they reached Plymouth on ship „Batory”.