Word: virgilia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was not the universal sentiment of the West. In Polish Profile, Princess Paul Sapieha (Virgilia Peterson Ross) documents the perplexity. A young woman from Manhattan who married a Polish aristocrat, Princess Sapieha (pronounced Sa-pee-ayz-ha) lived for six years in Poland and escaped last September under the wings of German bombers. She has written her book for her two children to inform them of the society into which they were born and which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom...