Prose writer, publicist, journalist. One of the most outstanding Polish writers of the 20th century, nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1975 by the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Kansas. Józef Mackiewicz.
Fighting between the Republic of Poland and the Cossacks had been going on for several years. Among the most important clashes of this period, it is worth mentioning the Battle of Zhovti Vody, Korsun and Piławce in 1648, the siege of Lviv, Zamość and Zbarazh and the battle of Zborov in 1649, as well as the battles of Beresteczko in 1651 and Batoh in 1652.
A singular talent of Polish literature with a swashbuckling past: a defiant and unyielding anti-communist, intelligence agent of the Second Polish Republic in the Eastern Borderlands, smuggler, fearless AK soldier. Sergiusz Piasecki received a pardon from his prison sentence owing to his literary exploits.
