John & Mark,
Thanks for confirmation that this book is on market. I heard about "The Black Devils' March" but several times the publisher delayed this book. As I can see finally this book landed in the bookstores. Very good. No doubt it will be extremely interesting for me to compare Western image of the Polish 1st Armoured Division to our Polish viewpoints. I only hope that this book will not be a "tank counterpart" of the newest American book "A Question of Honor" on the Polish WWII fighter pilots. The book more pathetic than the most pathetic Polish book on this subject and the book containing quasi-historic "facts" taken from the air. Suddenly after 60 years the West looked around and saw that there was such a Polish Ally that had fourth the greatest Armed Forces during WWII and that fought together with the Western Allies in the MTO and ETO. If we add Professor Norman Davies publicism we do have pretty nice "Polish trend" now in the Western WWII historiography.
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Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
Also, have you heard the story of the Polish Lieut. who showed up at a R.C.A.S.C. Petrol Point, in the dead of night and the Cdn duty officer thinking that he only wanted to refuel his tank, issued him a chit for the Petrol Point, only to find the next morning that the whole of the Polish Armoured Brigade had refuelled, leaving the Petrol Point nearly 'dry' 
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Beautiful
Typical Polish "the art of life survival"
I did not know this story. Does it come from a book?
Thank you friends for your participation in this funny thread!
Warm regards from Warsaw
Gregory
