Miracle on the Vistula: How Poland Stopped the Red Army and Saved Western Civilisation

On August 13, 1920, Soviet scouts reached the outskirts of Warsaw. Government ministries were packing their archives. Diplomatic legations were preparing to flee. The Red Army — fresh from the most rapid advance in modern European military history — stood within artillery range of the Polish capital, and Lenin had already appointed the revolutionary committee that would govern a Soviet Poland. The...