Andrew Borowiec

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Andrew Borowiec (born September 24, 1928 in Łódź ) is a Polish-American journalist.

Life

Andrzej Borowiec grew up in a family of Polish professional soldiers in Łódź. During the German occupation of Poland, Borowiec joined the Zośka battalion and took part in the Warsaw Uprising . He received the rank of Lance Corporal . His unit was evacuated through the sewer system from the center of Warsaw to the Mokotów district . After the uprising was put down, he, who was wounded twice, fell into German captivity on September 27, 1944 and was held in Stalag XI A in Altengrabow until the end of the war . He was forced to do agricultural work on a farm as a team rank.

After the end of the war he returned to Poland, but then went to General Władysław Anders for 2 Korpus Polski , which was under British command, to Italy and, after the dissolution of the Polish army units, to Great Britain. In Great Britain he resumed his interrupted schooling and then went to the USA on a scholarship, where he Anglicized his first name. He graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with an MA in Journalism . He began journalism in the USA and worked for thirteen years as a correspondent for the Associated Press in New York, Western Europe, North Africa and the Sahel and in Vietnam, and became head of the AP office in Geneva . For nine years he was a correspondent for the Washington Star in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Vietnam. He worked in the Mediterranean for the Chicago Sun-Times . He has been writing for the Washington Times since 1984 .

He has authored several books on the political situation in the Mediterranean region. Most recently he published an autobiographical book on the Warsaw Uprising in 2014.

Borowiec lives in Cyprus and France .

Fonts (selection)

  • Warsaw boy: a memoir of a wartime childhood . London: Viking, 2014.
  • Taming the Sahara: Tunisia shows a way while others falter . Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
  • Destroy Warsaw! : Hitler's punishment, Stalin's revenge . Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
  • Cyprus: a troubled island . Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
  • Modern Tunisia: a democratic apprenticeship . Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
  • The Mediterranean feud . New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1983.
  • Yugoslavia after Tito . New York: Praeger, 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Roger Moorhouse : Street fighter , review, in: Financial Times , July 6, 2014, p. 10
  2. ↑ a b c Andrzej (Andrew) BOROWIEC , at: The Witnesses' Uprising Reports, SPPW-1944 (as of 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Borowiec, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borowiec, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź