Selasa, 18 Juli 2017

You Command: Polish Motorized Infantry Attack, 1944

As Major Wladyslaw Zgorzelski, YOU must lead your men to close the Falaise Gap and trap German 7th Army. On September 1, 1939, World War II in Europe erupted when Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s German armies invaded Poland. (See Battlefield Leader p. 24.) In a campaign that lasted slightly over a month, they defeated Poland’s …

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