One Man's Journey

About the Book

One Man’s Journey recounts the start of WW II-of love, war and survival-German POW-Polish Underground-imprisonment in a Siberian gulag in USSR-the Polish Army in Uzbekistan and Iraq and eventually joining the Polish and Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot in England.

You will experience train travel through the Siberian Taiga and Kazakhstan’s steppes, ocean voyages, and an African refugee settlement.

You will be in jail in Soviet Russia surrounded by learned men trying to survive on thin soup and a piece of bread.

You will be escaping from the German GESTAPO only to be caught by Russian NKVD, now KGB.

You will be the last on “amnesty” list, and the last ship to freedom.

Accurate historical war events interspersed with dramatic and sometimes humorous personal stories. It is a rich autobiographical experience that parallels the diary of a mysterious Polish woman. Interwoven throughout the narrative is a saga of profound and memorable love. The author’s tenacity to survive prisons, starvation and diseases to achieve his ultimate goal makes exciting reading as we follow his adventures.

About the Author

Tadeusz P. Wojcik, “Tad” in his retirement, resides with his wife Zosia in a lovely place just outside of Austin, Texas, surrounded by acres of greenery and with an exceptional, panoramic view of Lake Travis.

He graduated with a  B.S. degree in engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. In England he graduated from Government Engineering School and attended Technical College in Engineering. He published a technical paper in “Graphic Science”.

He worked as a Mechanical Engineer, after his WW II military service, on many governmental defense projects, including design, testing and development in aerospace and space vehicles.

He was 18 years old at the start of WW II. After volunteering into the Polish Army in September 1939, his exploits began.