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A Debt of Dishonour is a unique documentary film dedicated Major General Sosabowski and all ranks who served in the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group and to their Comrades-in-Arms of the 1st British Airborne Division that fought in the ill-fated “Operation Market Garden” at Arnhem and Driel during September 1944.

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Jan Herman Zukertort (1842–1888)—Polish Chess Grandmaster

 

Jan Zukertort

ARCYMISTRZ Z LUBLINA
Jan Herman
ZUKERTORT
7.09.1842 Lublin, Polska +20.06.1888 London, UK

JEDEN Z NAJWYBITNIEJSZYCH SZACHISTOW WSZECHCZASOW
  UCZESTNIK PIERWSZEGO MECZU O SZACHOWE MISTRZOSTWO SWIATA
NAJWYBITNIEJSZY POLSKI SPORTOWIEC XIX WIEKU
CZESC JEGO PAMIECI

 

JZ_vs_AA_1877Jan Zukertort vs Adolf Anderson Leipzig 1877

 

CHESS GRANDMASTER FROM LUBLIN
Johannes Hermann
ZUKERTORT
7.09.1842 Lublin, Poland +20.06.1888 London, UK

ONE OF THE GREATEST CHESS PLAYERS OF ALL TIME
CHESS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE CONTENDER
THE GREATEST POLISH SPORTSMAN OF THE XIX CENTURY
ALWAYS IN OUR MEMORY

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