Warsaw 1920

Warsaw 1920 reconstructs the decisive campaign of the Polish–Soviet War, when Red Army forces drove west towards the Polish capital and appeared close to destroying the newly restored state. Adam Zamoyski explains the military and political ambitions behind the offensive, the weakness of Poland’s international position and the rapid movement of cavalry, infantry and improvised armies across a broad eastern European front.

The narrative centres on Józef Piłsudski’s counter-offensive and the Polish victory usually called the Miracle on the Vistula. Lenin and Stalin appear within the Soviet leadership whose revolutionary expectations extended beyond Poland towards Germany and western Europe. The book is nonfiction military and political history.