Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski. „From My Window. Poland before the War”

“The Memoirs of Pobóg-Malinowski – one is able to read in the draft version of the publisher’s announcement – present not only a gallery of characters, the majority of whom have become a permanent part of history…[…] Many of Pobóg’s accounts have turned out to be a revelation and the immensity of factual data contained in the memoirs – have proved to be an invaluable source of information for future historians.”
The present publication constitutes a second part of the autobiographical notes of Wladyslaw Pobóg-Malinowski which were published in the Academic Papers of the Jagiellonian University (ZNUJ) last year. In the first part, the author describes the period of his childhood and youth, as well as the time of his service in the armed forces. It was Pobóg’s first literary attempts that had opened the road to his future post in the Army Historical Bureau and subsequently in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; they had also facilitated his work on the edition of the works of marshal Józef Piłsudski. It is precisely the period of his abandonment of the post of officer in the army regiment in Złoczów and his subsequent transfer to Warsaw that is described on the pages of the current fragment of the memoirs.
Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski (1899–1962) is remembered by us chiefly as the author of the “Recent Political History of Poland.” Both his rich and varied life as well as his vast knowledge are reflected in the memoirs. Yet, if it has not been for a few coincidences – e.g. the less than complimentary reviews after the publication of the fragments of his memoirs entitled “On the Rumanian Crossroads” in the Paris “Kultura,” his inborn inability to express his thoughts in a concise manner, his inability to present things in a brief manner, and to put it bluntly, his stubbornness and quarrelsomeness – then we can risk saying that it would not be the above-mentioned multi-volume work, but the equally voluminous memoirs of Pobog-Malinowski that would fulfill the same function as his flagship publication which has appeared in so many copies and editions.

Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski. „From My Window. Poland before the War”

“The Memoirs of Pobóg-Malinowski – one is able to read in the draft version of the publisher’s announcement – present not only a gallery of characters, the majority of whom have become a permanent part of history…[…] Many of Pobóg’s accounts have turned out to be a revelation and the immensity of factual data contained in the memoirs – have proved to be an invaluable source of information for future historians.”
The present publication constitutes a second part of the autobiographical notes of Wladyslaw Pobóg-Malinowski which were published in the Academic Papers of the Jagiellonian University (ZNUJ) last year. In the first part, the author describes the period of his childhood and youth, as well as the time of his service in the armed forces. It was Pobóg’s first literary attempts that had opened the road to his future post in the Army Historical Bureau and subsequently in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; they had also facilitated his work on the edition of the works of marshal Józef Piłsudski. It is precisely the period of his abandonment of the post of officer in the army regiment in Złoczów and his subsequent transfer to Warsaw that is described on the pages of the current fragment of the memoirs.
Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski (1899–1962) is remembered by us chiefly as the author of the “Recent Political History of Poland.” Both his rich and varied life as well as his vast knowledge are reflected in the memoirs. Yet, if it has not been for a few coincidences – e.g. the less than complimentary reviews after the publication of the fragments of his memoirs entitled “On the Rumanian Crossroads” in the Paris “Kultura,” his inborn inability to express his thoughts in a concise manner, his inability to present things in a brief manner, and to put it bluntly, his stubbornness and quarrelsomeness – then we can risk saying that it would not be the above-mentioned multi-volume work, but the equally voluminous memoirs of Pobog-Malinowski that would fulfill the same function as his flagship publication which has appeared in so many copies and editions.