A Question of Honor by Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud (2003, Hardcover)

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A Question of Honor is the gripping story of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during World War II. Written by the authors of the acclaimed 1996 book The Murrow Boys, which Garrison Keillor described as "a history [of the World War II era] so vivid and clear you get 50 years younger by reading it," A Question of Honor is similarly filled with adventure and heroism. In addition, it tells how the Poles, despite their crucial contributions to the Allied war effort, were finally betrayed by the "Big Three" -- Joseph Stalin, FDR and Winston Churchill.
Focusing on five extraordinary pilots who flew in the famed Kosciuszko Squadron, the authors describe the pilots' escape from their homeland after Poland was defeated by Germany in 1939. Along with thousands of other Polish military personnel, the pilots -- determined to continue the fight -- went first to France, then to Britain. Soon their brilliant accomplishments in the air made them "the glamour boys of England."

Thanks to the authors' extensive research and novelistic story-telling, the men and battles of the Kosciuszko Squadron -- their courage, triumph and defeats -- are brought vividly to life in A Question of Honor.