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Book SynopsisTytus Sas Komarnicki was born in 1896 in Warsaw. He had been living in Grenoble since 1942 where he was responsible for the Polish Red Cross. At the same time he was involved in Polish underground movements which meant that the Gestapo agents were constantly on his heels. Before World War Two he had been the Polish Delegate to the League of Nations from 1936 and also Polish Ambassador in Bern. In 1940, after the invasion of his homeland, he and his family moved to France and eventually to Grenoble. After the war he lived with his family in London where he wrote several books on Polish history and was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Law courts in The Hague. He died in London in 1967.
Table of ContentsTranslator’s foreword to ‘Despair and Hope’ 5 by Juliusz Komarnicki 5 Chapter 1: Preparations for a journey - September 1943 9 Chapter 2: The journey in France 14 Chapter 3: Andorra 27 Chapter 4: Spain: Puigcerdá to Barcelona 40 Chapter 5: Barcelona 43 Chapter 6: The taxi journey to Madrid 55 Chapter 7: Waiting in Madrid 59 Chapter 8: The train journey through Spain and Portugal 75 Chapter 9: Gibraltar 80 Chapter 10: The flight to England and arrival 94 Chapter 11: The endless wait in London 98 Notes to accompany the text 107
