This article presents the perception of the political system of the Venetian Republic as seen by Polish travellers at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In their travel accounts, peregrinates described the various ...

The article is dedicated to the Polish-Russian relations in the mid-1650s. It focuses on the analysis of the instructions issued by the royal chancellery on 7 July 1656 and passed on to deputies going to Vilnius for ...

After the end of military operations in East Prussia, the Polish administration just like the Polish Army faced the problem of further use of post-German fortifications. In addition to demining their territory, this was ...

An important element in strengthening the military potential of the Home Army during the Second World War was armaments delivered by air. Airdrops had not only a physical form – rifles, pistols, grenades, explosive materials ...

Polish military railways played important role in the Russo-Polish War of 1919–1920. It provided efficient railway lines evacuation during the Second Tukhachevsky offensive in the summer of 1920 in the territories of modern ...

In this article, the author explores the permanent fortifications known as the “Fortified Districts”, and unofficially as the “Stalin Line”, which were established on the western borderland of the Soviet Union between 1929 ...

This article analyses the records of weapons and protective equipment in the soldiers’ wills of the Crown Army, serving in the Vasa period (1587–1668). It presents information about the testators: their marital status, ...

An important factor in the view of the phenomenon of captivity in the Middle Ages was its mercantilisation. Prisoner of war had an important economic dimension, linked to the extraction of profits from ransoms. Ransom for ...

The article presents the issue of one of the war crimes, i.e. perfidy (during a war). In contrast the so-called deception (during a war) which is legal – the crime of perfidy is morally unacceptable and legally prohibited ...