A young teenager enlisted into the Polish Army in 1938. Deported to the Soviet Union andimprisoned in a Siberian prison camp, this audacious soldier became reunited with his compatriots in Scotland where he trained as a paratrooper and took part in the fated WW2 Operation Market Garden, Arnhem in 1944. Fifty years later, then a patient in hospital, the soldier recounted his life's experience to my father in the next bed, who had the forethought to record their conversation onto a Dictaphone machine. My father'sempathetic nature and harrowing childhood experiences of seeing HMS...