BATTLE OF WARSAW
The heady days of conquest were in the past as the Polish Army stood on the brink of defeat in mid-August 1920. Under Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the Poles had driven victoriously eastward in the early stages of the Polish-Soviet War, and apparently established a favourable eastern frontier with Soviet Russia. However, a dazzling counterattack by the Red Army had compelled the Poles to retreat – and then came the realisation that the Russians had no
