This book is about an unusual love story between a young Bulgarian girl and an aristocratic young Polish journalist in pre-war Rome. It shows the two extremes in recent world history. The end of the old order and the birth of a cruel and materialistic one.

ANDRZEJ SUCHCITZ

Jas told General Sikorski that he wanted to go to Poland as a parachutist instead of staying in Britain waiting for Hitler’s invasion which he thought would never happen.

NICOLAS ROSTWOROWSKI

At the end of March 1943 we got a secret message that my brother was in Warsaw. He had been parachuted in and was to meet me. The war was only a beginning, he said. It was sink or swim for Christian civilisation, in the long run the fight will be over that civilisation.

STANISŁAW ROSTWOROWSKI

In Gross-Rosen Jan Rostworowski was respected by everybody, he raised the spirit of all. We loved him.

X. JAN RZYMELKA