Józef Piłsudski

From The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World, 1931 by Viscount D'Abernon

    Warsaw, 25th July, 1920.—( . . . )

Later in the day I had an interview with the chief of the State, Pilsudski, who said the greatest service the Mission could render Poland was to keep the communications through Danzig open.   Poland was in urgent need of supplies.   But this was not all. The importance of keeping the road open was not only material but moral.  He attached more importance to supplies than to military assistance in the form either of advice or foreign officers.

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    Warsaw, 28th July, 1920.—The dominant personality here is unquestionably Marshal Pilsudski, Head of the State and Commander-in-Chief of the Army.   An astounding career : seven years in Siberia, and a good many months on other occasions in various Russian prisons.   An ardent patriot and a man of immense courage and force of character. A pronounced sceptic about orthodox methods, whether applied to military affairs or politics ; he loves danger, his pulse only beating at a normal rate when he is in imminent personal peril—at other times at forty to the minute.   In appearance so striking as to be almost theatrical.   None of the usual amenities of civilised intercourse but all the apparatus of sombre genius.   He claims that in actual fighting his methods, though unusual and not in conformity with textbook practice, have invariably proved successful.

(. .)

It is noticeable that he has gained a complete ascendancy over the foreign military officers who have been brought into contact with him.   Général Henrys is a devotee, and the head of the British Military Mission, General Carton de Wiart¹—a man of marked independence of judgment—is fascinated by this strange Polish phenomenon.

    ¹ Major-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, V.C., C.M.G., D.S.O., the head of a British Military Mission which had been in Poland since the Armistice.

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The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World : WARSAW 1920
By Edgar D'Abernon
( London : Hodder and Stoughton 1931 )
Westport, Connecticut : Hyperion 1977

From POLAND : Key to Europe, 1939 by Raymond Leslie Buell

...     Upon the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Piłsudski went to Tokyo and asked for arms in order to organize a revolt.¹²

While Japan did not accept this proposal, Piłsudski subsequently organized about two hundred rifle clubs in Austrian Poland, which became the basis of the Polish army.     ...

    ¹² In a memorandum given the Japanese authorities in Tokyo, he contended that of the 126,000,000 inhabitants of Russia, less than 60,000,000 were really Russian. W. Bączkowski, " J. Piłsudski and the Problems of Russia," Wschód-Orient, No. 2, 1938.

New York, London : A. Knopf 1938, 1939, pages 63-4.

Comment : the ethnic composition of Russia (originally known as Muscovy) has been not so much the Aryan (Indo-European) Slav as largely the Turanian. Please see   http://www.hunmagyar.org/turan.html   (WPT, 9 Nov 04.)

From PILSUDSKI, 1941 by Aleksandra Piłsudska

The beginning of 1920 saw improvements in some aspects of the national situation and increased difficulties in others. The army had gained in strength and experience. A uniform system of training had been established, urgently needed arms had been brought from France. But the winter had been hard, unemployment had risen, and even Paderewski's liberality of ideas had not prevent friction in the Government. The dispute with the Czechs was still at a deadlock, Germany, consumed with bitterness over the Treaty of Versailles and the disposal of Danzig and the Corridor, but unable to strike back at the Allies, was concentrating all her venom against Poland. The Bolsheviks were winning the battle in diplomacy. An extensive and efficient propaganda campaign which they launched against Poland was already having disastrous effects among Allied statesmen. The Socialist Press in England was attacking Pilsudski and clamouring for support for the Russian workers; the phrase "polish imperialism" had been coined, and even the most moderately inclined politicians were beginning to hint that the Poles were being unreasonable.

The Russians, following up their diplomatic success, decided to put themselves in a still more favourable light with the Allies and made Poland a peace offer, although they were concentrating a large force at the Polish frontier. It was rejected, and for that rejection Poland has been severely criticized. The Allied Supreme Council adopted an admonitory tone, which they no doubt felt to be justified. Europe was sick of the very name of war. The other nations had ceased to fight, why could not Poland lay down her arms? Various motives were attributed to Pilsudski, principally that of pride, which was absurd. Unlike Hitler and Mussolini, he was utterly devoid of personal ambition, had no wish to see himself in the role of a world conqueror, and no thought of extravagant territorial claims. All he wanted was to win back for Poland that which had been taken from her. But he had another deeper reason. His fear and distrust of Bolshevism, which he believed would destroy any state in which it took root. He emphasized his convictions in an interview which he gave to the correspondent of an English newspaper in the hope that it might promote a better understanding of Poland. . . .

"I think that the methods which have made Russian Socialism a policy of terrorism and the total destruction of social life would be unthinkable in civilized countries" . . . he said . . . "Ask the Socialists of Great Britain whether they wold like to have Lenin and Zinoviev reorganize their Government for them on the lines of Bolshevism. I think they would say 'No.' Do you wonder that I am afraid of the Bolsheviks coming here uninvited to reorganize the Polish Government?"

PILSUDSKI : A Biography by his Wife,
by A. Piłsudska (with Jennifer Ellis),
New York : Dodd, Mead 1941, pp. 295-6.

From THE SEARCH FOR PEACE, 1949 by Edward Henry Carter

Both Poland and Czechoslovakia had, at their rebirth in 1919, the guidance of able statesmen. Pilsudski, Marshal and Dictator, led Poland in war and politics. President Mazaryk [sic] exercised in Czechoslovakia a fine democratic influence ;   (etc).

London : Pitman 1949, p. 76.

From The Decisive Battles of the Western World, 1954-6 by J. F. C. Fuller

On August 2 Pilsudski entered Warsaw to learn that the Narew was in his enemy's hands. On the following day Lomza was lost and the whole of the Polish First Army fell back on the capital. Annihilation seemed imminent ; yet again the situation was not without hope, for the rapidity of the Bolshevik advance, nearly 300 miles in 30 days, had so disordered Tukhachevski's supply system that it was near dissolution. The situation was such that Tukhachevski could neither stand still nor retire ; to halt and reorganize was out of the question for it would mean starvation. All he could do was to push on.

Further, the political situation favoured a continuation of the attack. In Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany the workers refused to allow munitions to pass through their countries to Poland. "On August 6 the British Labour Party published a pamphlet which stated that the workers of Great Britain would take no part in the war as allies of Poland." In Paris the French Socialists, through their organ L'Humanité, spoke of a "war against the Soviet Republic by the Polish Government on the orders of Anglo-French Imperialism, and cried 'Not a man, not a sou, not a shell for reactionary and capitalist Poland. Long live the Russian Revolution. Long live the Workman's International' "¹ while in Danzig the dockers refused to unload munitions. Of all European peoples the Hungarians alone were friendly to the Poles, because under the hideous régime of Bela Kun they had tasted the fruits of the Bolshevik revolution²

    ¹ The Poland of Pilsudski, Robert Machray, pp. 112-113.
    ² On May 27, 1919, Lenin had written to the Hungarian Communists as follows : "Be firm. If there are waverings among the Socialists who came over to you yesterday, or among the petty bourgeoisie, in regard to the dictatorship of the proletariat, suppress the waverings mercilessly.   [Etc.]". (Collected Works, Lenin, vol. xvi, p. 229).

London : Eyre and Spottiswoode 1956, Vol. III, p. 348.

From Allied Wartime Diplomacy, Edward J. Rozek, 1958

When France and Britain rejected Pilsudski's proposal to organize a preventive war against Hitler, Poland was forced to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany in January 1934. . . .

New York : John Wiley, London : Chapman & Hall, 1958, page 19.

Piłsudski, Józef, 1867-1935. Title Rok 1863 / Józef Piłsudski ; wstęp i opracowanie Stefan Kieniewicz. Publisher Warszawa : Książka i Wiedza, 1989. Description 211 p. : port. ; 21 cm. ISBN 8305123278 Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Myśli, mowy i rozkazy / J�zef Piłsudski ; wybrał i wste̜pem opatrzył Bohdan Urbankowski. Publisher Warszawa : Kwadryga, 1989. Description 151 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 8385082018

Piłsudski, Józef, 1867-1935. Title Korespondencja 1914-17 / Józef Piłsudski ; opracowali Stanisław Biegański, Andrzej Suchcitz. Publisher Londyn : Instytut Józefa Piłsudskiego, 1986. Description xix, 281 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 094801900X Note Includes index. Note Bibliography: p. 269-273.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Bibuła / J�zef Piłsudski. Publisher London : Puls Publications, [1984?] Description 164 p. ; 22 cm. Series Puls politicus ;3 ISBN 0907587127

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Uniform Title [ Rok 1920. English] Title Year 1920 and its climax : Battle of Warsaw during the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1920 / J�zef Piłsudski. Publisher London : Piłsudski Institute of London ; New York : Piłsudski Institute of America, 1972. Description ix, 283 p., [9] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Language English Note Translation of: Rok 1920 / J�zef Piłsudski, and Pokhod za Vislu / M.N. Tukhachevskiĭ. 27 maps in pocket. Errata slip inserted.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title The memories of a Polish revolutionary and soldier. [Translated and edited by D. R. Gillie] Publisher London, Faber & Faber [1971] Description x, 377 p. illus., maps. 23 cm. Language English Note At head of title: Joseph Pilsudski. "Reprinted from the edition of 1931, London."

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Joseph Pilsudski; the memories of a Polish revolutionary and soldier, translated and edited by D. R. Gillie. Publisher New York, AMS Press [1971] Description x, 377 p. front., plates, ports., fold. maps 24 cm.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title O Polsce i wojnie : myśli i aforyzmy J�zefa Piłsudskiego / wybrał, przygotował do druku i wydał Konrad Libicki. Publisher Londyn : Poets' and Painters' Press, 1967 Description 52 p. ; 21 cm.

Pob�g-Malinowski, Władysław, 1899-1962. Title J�zef Piłsudski, 1867-1914 / Władysław Pob�g-Malinowski. Publisher Londyn : Komitet Wydawniczy, [1964?] Description 439 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Note At head of title: Władysław Pob�g-Malinowski. Note Bibliographical references included in "Przypisy."

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title O powstaniu 1863 [i.e., tysiąc osiemset sześćdziesiątego trzeciego] roku. Publisher Londyn : Gryf Publications, 1963. Description 276 p. : ill., ports., maps, facsims. ; 22 cm. Note At head of title: Instytut J�zefa Pilsudskiego, Poświęcony Badaniu Najnowszej Historii Polski, Nowy Jork, Londyn.

Benedykt, Stefan. Title W ćwierćwiecze zgonu / redaktor: Stefan Benedykt. Publisher Londyn : Komitet Uczczenia Pamięci J�zefa Piłsudskiego w 25 Lecie Jego Zgonu, 1960. Description 100 p. Note Contents: Szkic biograficzny -- J�zef Piłsudski m�wi -- Komendant i marszałek w poezji i pieśni -- Za życia i po śmierci -- Głosy zagranicy -- U wr�t Wawelu. Subject Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935.

Pilsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935 Title Wyb�r pism. Przedmowa Walergo Sławka. Wybrał i wstępem zsopatrzył Wacław Jędrzejewicz Publisher New York, Amerykański instytut J�zefa Piłsudskiego poświęcony badaniu najnowszej historji Polski, 1944 Description xv, 368 p. front., illus. (facsim.) plates, ports., fold. map. 24 cm Note "'Wyb�r pism' ... oparty jest na 10-cio tomowym wydawnictwie p. t.'Pisma zbiorowe J�zefa Piłsudskiego,' opublikowanym przez naszą bratnią instytucję, Instytut J�zefa Piłsudskiego poświęcony badaniu najnowszej historji Polski w Warszawie."--p. xii

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Pisma wybrane. Publisher London, M. I. Kolin [1943] Description 2 p. l., 468 p. 23 cm. Note "Oparte są na dziesięciotomowem wydaniu 'Pism zbiorowych' (Warszawa, Instytut J�zefa Piłsudskiego poświęcony badaniu najnowszej historji Polski, 1937)"--2d prelim. leaf.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Takiej Polski chce J�zef Piłsudski. Publisher Warszawa [Nakł. Harcerskiej Szkoły Instruktorskiej na Buczu] 1937. Description 62, [1] p. Note Excerpts from the author's writings. Pref. signed Ignacy Mościcki. Note Bibliography: p. 56-[63]

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Uniform Title [ Correspondence] Title Pisma zbiorowe : wydanie prac dotychczas drukiem ogłoszonych / J�zef Piłsudski ; [edited by Leon Wasilewski ... et al.]. Publisher Warszawa : Instytut J�zefa Piłsudskiego, 1937-1938. Description 10 v. : ill., ports, fold maps, facsims. (some fold.) ; 24 cm. Note Vol 10: Skorowidze i uzupełnienia. First edition published in 1930-1936 under title Pisma-mowy-rozkazy.

Piłsudski, Józef, 1867-1935. Title Du révolutionnaire au chef d'état, 1893-1935. Pages choisies des dix volumes des "Oeuvres, Discours, Ordres"; tr. par le Lt. Colonel Bte Charles Jèze et le Commandant J.-A. Teslar ... Publisher Paris : Société Française d'Éditions Littéraires et Techniques, [c1935] Description 423, [1] p. front. (port.) Series Collection polonaise. Histoire Language French

Piłsudski, Jo̲zef. 1867-1935. Title Erinnerungen und dokumente. Publisher Essen : Essener verlagsanstalt, [1935-36] Description 4 v. illus. (incl. facsims.) 5 port., 9 maps (8 fold., in pocket) 25 cm. Language Spanish [sic ! (University of California Catalogue)] Note Translation from the Polish by Jean Paul d'Ardeschah (i.e. J.P. Kaczkowski) K. Reidl and A. v. Guttry. Contents bd.I. Der grosse marshall, von dr. Wac aw Lipinski. Meine ersten kampfe.-bd.II. Vorwort von reichskriegsminister von Blomberg. Das jahr 1920. Der vormarsch uber die Weichsel, von M. Tuchatschewsky.-bd.III. Vorwort von generalmajor F. von Rabenau. Einleitung von dr. W. Lipinski. Militarische vorlesungen.-bd.IV> Einleitung von dr. W. Lipinski. Reden und armeebefehle.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title 1926-1930 [i.e. Tysiąc dziewięćset dwadzieścia sześć- tysiąc dziewięćset trzydzieści] przem�wienia, wywiady, artykuły. Wyd. nowe, uzup. [Zebrali i do druku przygotowali: Antonio Anusz i Władysław Pol�g-Malinowski] Publisher Warszawa, Nakł. Tow. Wydawniczego "Polska Zjednoczona"; Skł. gł.: Dom Książki Polskiej, 1931. Description xvi, 344, xci p. 21 cm.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935 Title Joseph Pilsudski; the memories of a Polish revolutionary and soldier, translated and edited by D. R. Gillie Publisher London, Faber & Faber [1931] Description x, 377 p. front., plates, ports., fold. maps. 24 cm Language English Note This book includes nearly everything Pilsudski has written about his personal experiences prior to 1923 except the book Rok, 1920. It contains the major parts of Bibula, written in 1903, and Moje pierwsze boje, written in 1917, as well as many articles, fragments of speeches, a letter and orders to troops. cf. Translator's pref

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Uniform Title [ Moje pierwsze boje. French] Title Mes premiers combats : souvenirs r�dig�s dans la forteresse de Magdebourg / Joseph Pilsudski ; traduit du polonais par Ch. J�ze et J. A. Teslar. Publisher Paris : Gebethner et Wolff, 1931. Description xi, 205 p. : port., maps ; 23 cm. Language French Note Translation of Moje pierwsze boje.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title O Polsce i wojnie myśli i aforyzmy J�zefa Piłsudskiego. Publisher [Londyn] : [s.n.], [194-] Description 24 p. ; 18 cm.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Pisma, mowy, rozkazy; wydanie zbiorowe prac dotychczas drukiem ogłoszonych. Publisher Warszawa, Instytut Badania Najnowszej Historji Polski, 1930- Description v. maps (part fold.) 20 cm. Note Edited by Juljan Stachiewicz, Leon Wasilewski, and Władysław Pobog-Malinowski. "Komitet redakcyjny: Michał Sokolnicki i Juljan Stachiewicz." Published 1937-38 under title: Pisma zbiorowe. "M. Tuchaczewski. Poch�d za Wisłę; wykłady wygłoszone na kursie uzupełniającym Akademji wojskowej R. K. K. A. w Moskwie, 7-10 lutego 1923 roku. Przełożył Antoni Bogusławski": v. 7, p. [263]-332.

Camon, Hubert, 1855-1942. Title La manoeuvre de libe�ratrice du Mare�chal Pilsudski contre les Bolche�viks, août 1920; e�tude strate�gique. Publisher Paris : F. Alcan, 1929. Description vii, 124 p. port., maps 19 cm. Language French Note Bibliographical references included in "Avant-propos."

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title L'ann�e 1920. �dition compl�te avec le texte de l'ouvrage de M. Toukhatchevski "La marche au-del� de la Vistule" et les notes critiques du Bureau historique militaire de Varsovie. Traduit du polonais par le lt-colonel bt� Ch. J�ze ... et le commandant J.-A. Teslar ... Publisher Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1929. Description viii, 335, [1] p. front. (port.) maps (part fold.) 26 cm. Language French Note At head of title: Joseph Pilsudski. "La version polonaise [de M. Toukhatchevski: La marche au-del� de la Vistule] est due au lt colonel bt� Antoine Boguslawski."--p. [203] foot-note.

Sikorski, Władysław, 1881-1943. Title La campagne polono-russe de 1920; traduction par le commandant M. Larcher; avec 8 croquis; préface de m. le maréchal Foch. Publisher Paris : Payot, 1928. Description 320 p. illus. (maps) 23 cm. Series Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre mondiale. Language French Note At head of title: Général de division L. Sikorski.

Piłsudski, Józef, 1867-1935. Title Rok 1920. Z Powodu Ksiazki M. Tuchaczewskiego "Pochod za Wisle." Publisher Warsaw : Inst. Badan Najnowszej Historji Polskiej, 1927. Description vii, 378 p. illus.

Piłsudski, J�zef, 1867-1935. Title Walka rewolucyjna w zaborze rosyjskim; fakty i wrazenia z ostatnich lat dziesięciu ... [Microform] Publisher Krak�w, "Naprzodu," 1903- Description v. Contents Część 1. Bibuła.