"A powerful, gripping historical saga."

 -Midwest Book Review

"A moving fictional memoir....a passionate account of the resilience of man and compromises that left Poland at the mercy of the Soviets."

-Polish American Journal

              Andrzej was only sixteen when he was deported from his home in eastern Poland and sent to a Siberian labor camp during World War II.  The Soviets planned to work him to death, but all that changed when the nazis invaded the Soviet Union.  Stalin was stunned and reluctantly agreed to the formation of a Polish army in exile. Andrzej had only one chance for survival: travel thousands of miles through the Siberian wastelands to find this new army, known as Anders’ Army. 

  The Brief Sun is the true story of men who left labor camps half-starved, and trained with rags on their feet and wooden guns on their shoulders to win back their homeland.  They developed into what future British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan referred to as one of the greatest fighting units in World War II, winning battle after battle against Germany’s finest soldiers and opening up the road to Rome for the Allies.  An undefeated army in exile, they were betrayed when within reach of their homeland.  Find more background information here.