This is Volume 1 of a bi-lingual edition (Polish/English) of the wartime and post-wartime correspondence of the Grycz and Poniecki families. This amazing collection of the letters of two intersecting families: Grycz and Poniecki span several decades and reveal much about the indissoluble bonds of family, the psychology of crisis and the terrible cost of warfare, all within a backdrop of history, real life, real pain and real survival. An altogether gripping narrative of a handful of valiant and heroic people raised to noble stature by the manner in which they confronted suffering and loss.