Stanley Whitehouse's book on Black Watch

[Crewman]

Fantastic
The situation like taken from the "Kelly's Heroes" style war comedy. I can imagine that in the Canadian homes up to present day live tens, if not hundreds, of such stories. Maj.-Gen. Harry W. Foster described Maj.-Gen. Stanislaw Maczek in the following manner:

Originally written by Maj.-Gen. Harry W. Foster

The Poles were a tight-lipped glum-looking lot with shaven heads and a grim determination to kill as many Germans as they could get their hands on. At O Group meetings Maczek usually prefixed every sentence with "Ze focking Gairman bastards" before getting to his point.

Source:
Tony Foster
Meeting of Generals
Authors Choice Press, Lincoln 1986
ISBN 0-595-13750-4
Page 356

Are there in Canada more such memoirs about Maczek?

Heh, how to preserve such stories of our common history : So many such stories go away. I can imagine for instance various funny, or not necessarily funny, misunderstandings when we fought together of hellish Quesnay Wood. This fuel depot story is really great ...


C.