Józef Piłsudski o „Legionach” i legionistach

Abstract

The paper presents the person of Joseph Pilsudski and his comments on the formation of “Legions” and the battles they fought. Pilsudski was a skilled narrator and resorted to a variety of genre conventions (such as fairy tale, reportage, memoir) and stylistic devices which were loaded emotionally and frequently evaluative with respect to people and the surrounding reality.

Keywords

• Polish Legions
• military values
• command
• rhetoric