Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski was a Polish independence activist and military leader who became chief of state after Poland regained independence in 1918. During the Polish–Soviet War he directed strategy at the highest level and played the leading role in the counter-offensive that defeated Soviet forces before Warsaw in August 1920.

Józef Piłsudski was a Polish independence leader, military commander and statesman who directed Poland during the Polish–Soviet War. Józef Piłsudski was born in Zułów, Russian Empire and died in Warsaw, Poland.

In Adam Zamoyski’s Poland, the 2009 book is a substantially revised and updated successor to Zamoyski’s earlier The Polish Way rather than a simple reprint. Figures such as Stanisław August Poniatowski, Józef Piłsudski and Joseph Stalin appear within the long political narrative. Adam Zamoyski’s Warsaw 1920 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.