Secret Army

Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Poland regained its independence in 1918, and Komorowski fought against the Russians in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Komorowski was the commander of units defending the Vistula River, but he was pushed east...