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This bibliophile couplet presents the wartime underground publications of a young Polish ZWZ-AK resistance member who after the War became a prominent scholar of Old Polish literature and culture. In 1940 Tadeusz Ulewicz published a small volume of patriotic poems. In early 1944, when he was a clandestine instructor training young combatants in the Polish resistance movement, he wrote and published a political pamphlet for his trainees. He could have paid with his life if caught by the Nazi occupying powers with either of these prints. Six decades later a facsimile edition was made from copies of the two works which well-nigh miraculously survived the War and the Communist period hidden away in the Jagiellonian Library collection.
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