Precious Freedom: A True Story of the Polish Underground (AK) WWII

With all the elements of a great autobiography and the poignancy only a true story can impart, 'Precious Freedom' tells of lives changed forever as the horror of World War II began. Kazimierz Gawor's account of his early life in Poland through to his involvement with the Polish resistance to fight the ever-tightening grip of Nazism in his homeland and then the Russian occupation makes for gritty, compelling reading. But most of all it tells of the triumph of human spirit, and provides an intensely personal supplement to the clinical facts we learn in history textbooks.