First edition. With no dust wrapper. A history of the relations between Poland and the U.S.S.R. from 1939 to 1945 as the end of the revival of Poland as a sovereign state. Written with the approval of the late General Sikorski, with access to his records. Written anonymously by Helena Sikorska, a Polish social activist and wife of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, General Sikorski. With a preface by Thomas Stearns Eliot, an American-British poet, essayist, playwright, critic, editor, and publisher. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and marks to the boards. Has shelf wear and light chipping to the extremities resulting in light loss to the head and tail of the spine and spotting on cover . Sunning to the spine and the edges of the panels. The odd small closed tear and odd mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the endpapers.