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    Melchior Wańkowicz (10 January 1892 – 10 September 1974) was a Polish army officer, popular writer, political journalist and publisher. He is most famous...
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  • with the surname include: Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), Belarus-born Polish writer, journalist, and publisher Walenty Wańkowicz (1799–1842), Belarus-born...
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    Polish journalist Melchior Wańkowicz met Beck, also in internment, and he managed to talk to him for a few hours. This is what Wańkowicz wrote about this...
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    career as an assistant to Melchior Wańkowicz, a prominent Polish writer. For her help and research with his latest book, Wańkowicz dedicated that book to...
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    Relay Race) is a 1939 compendium of literary reportage written by Melchior Wańkowicz. It was published in the year of the German-Soviet invasion of Poland...
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    Frenchman. The testimonies of survivors were collected and published by Melchior Wańkowicz in 1969, in the book From Stołpców to Cairo. Gardelegen became a part...
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  • 1570–1615), German composer Melchior Wathelet, Belgian politician Melchior Wathelet, Jr., Belgian politician Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), Polish writer...
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    ISBN 8386171049. Melchior Wańkowicz (1993). Szkice spod Monte Cassino. Wiedza Powszechna. ISBN 83-214-0913-X. Melchior Wańkowicz (1989). Bitwa o Monte...
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    Major Henryk Sucharski. Wrocław: Ossolineum. ISBN 978-83-04-03374-0. Melchior Wańkowicz (1990). Westerplatte. Warsaw: Pax. ISBN 978-83-211-1113-1. Pan Literka...
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  • historian and political journalist Melchior Wańkowicz. The book is a collection of analytical thinking stories written by Wańkowicz in the early 1940s, while the...
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    Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm Melchior Wańkowicz Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Rozdział: The Trial of Melchior Wańkowicz: 1964 (strony: 29–103), Lexington...
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    film and TV actor known for Shooter; in New Castle, Delaware Died: Melchior Wańkowicz, 82, Polish book author and journalist The crash of Eastern Air Lines...
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    Books. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henryk Dobrzański. Melchior Wańkowicz: Hubalczycy, Warsaw, 1970; Marek Szymanski: Oddzial majora Hubala...
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  • close to colloquial language. The word literally means "oral tale". Melchior Wańkowicz is recognized as a 20th century representative of the gawęda style...
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  • to Polish journalist Melchior Wańkowicz: "On August 9, Tomuś's birthday, we all went to see Son of Godzilla. I was afraid [Melchior] would be irritated...
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    Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912) September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892)...
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    between Warsaw and Kraków until 1934. This situation was described by Melchior Wańkowicz in his book Sztafeta.[citation needed] In addition to this was the...
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    political trials. Among others, he defended writer and journalist Melchior Wańkowicz, activist Jacek Kuroń, historian Karol Modzelewski and poet Janusz...
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    (1910–1999), art critic and one of the benefactors of the Cemetery Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), writer Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1870), composer Kazimierz...
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    that he wrote a volume of memoirs, Ostatni raport (Final Report). Melchior Wańkowicz, a popular Polish journalist, met Beck in the autumn of 1939 during...
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    has several features of the Masovian dialect, such as mazurzenie. Melchior Wańkowicz in his 1939 book Sztafeta gives an interesting example of the Lasowiacy...
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  • expanded and for the most part, continue to function until today. Melchior Wańkowicz, in his 1939 book Sztafeta, emphasized the fact that the quick growth...
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    attack, who also targeted the Polish Pope. In 2008 he won the 2007 Melchior Wańkowicz Award in the category of Inspiration of the Year for his “devotion...
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    Dziewanowski Award for her work as a foreign correspondent and the Melchior Wańkowicz Award for her reports from Chechnya. In 2005 the Chechen organization...
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    noble's tales), in the stories of the author of "Szczenięcych lat" Melchior Wańkowicz, and in the work of Ksawery Pruszyński and Wojciech Żukrowski. Numerous...
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    a British military hospital in Naples where he was interviewed by Melchior Wańkowicz, who made Sucharski the main protagonist in his 1948 short story Westerplatte...
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    the masterpiece of reportage. He also considered Curzio Malaparte, Melchior Wańkowicz, Ksawery Pruszyński and Franciszek Gil (1917–1960) to have been his...
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    Zofia Nałkowska (1884–1954), Medallions Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), Bitwa o Monte Cassino Krystyna Krahelska (1914–1944) Gustaw Herling-Grudziński...
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  • 1892 – Dumas Malone, American historian and author (d. 1986) 1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1974) 1893 – Albert Jacka...
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    period, including Jan Parandowski, Maria Dąbrowska, Jan Sztaudynger, Melchior Wańkowicz, Wojciech Kossak, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Magdalena Samozwaniec...
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