A Polish Voice - and my father, the man who always listened

A young teenager enlisted into the Polish Army in 1938. Deported to the Soviet Union and imprisoned in a Siberian prison camp, this audacious soldier became reunited with his compatriots in Scotland where he trained as a paratrooper and took part in the fated WW2 Operation Market Garden, Arnhem in 1944. Fifty years later, then a patient in hospital, the soldier recounted his life's experience to my father in the next bed, who had the forethought to record their conversation onto a Dictaphone machine. My father's empathetic nature and harrowing childhood experiences of seeing HMS Foylebank destroyed by German bomber planes on his way to school in 1940 led to a unique and unlikely friendship. The discovery of these recordings in 2020 inspired The Polish Voice, a fully researched historical record of both men's lives, a tribute to them, reminding us of the importance to listen to one another and the legacy of a recorded voice.

Product details

• Authors: Sandy Weatherburn
• Publisher: Brown Dog Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2023
• EAN: 9781839526152
• ISBN: 978-1-83952-615-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous