Karolina Lanckoronska
Countess Karolina Lanckoronska was born in Vienna in 1898. Active in the Polish Resistance during the Second World War, she spent most of the war after 1942 as a prisoner of the Germans. After her release in 1945, she founded The Lanckoronska Foundation to further the study of Polish history. She died in Rome in 2002, aged 104.
Books by Karolina Lanckoronska
First English-language publication of one of the greatest Second World War memoirs - with a new preface by Norman Davies.