Lech Wyszczelski

Who is Lech Wyszczelski?

Lech Wyszczelski is a Polish military historian and author of books on Central European history of the 20th century. A retired Colonel of the Polish Army and professor at various universities, he authored over 36 books and 420 articles on military history, notably on Polish-Bolshevik War and the Polish Army in the antebellum.

Lech Wyszczelski graduated from Historical-Political Faculty of the Dzerzhinsky Political-Military Academy in Warsaw in 1973 and in 1979 passed his PhD thesis there. In 1986 he received habilitation at the Warsaw Academy of General Staff. In 1998 he received permanent professorship from the president of Poland.

He currently holds a post at the Academy of National Defence in Warsaw, the Pułtusk-based Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna im. A. Gieysztora, and University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce. Between 1988 and 1990 he was also a member of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. In 2012 he received the Golden Medal for Long Service, for 30 years of service in the Polish Army.

Among the most notable of his books are a series of monographs on various operations of the Polish-Bolshevik War, including the Kiev 1920, Warsaw 1920, Battle at the Outskirts of Warsaw; 13-25th of August 1920 and The Undeclared War. Polish-Russian military activity of 1919. Among the works of a wider scope are Polish Military Thought 1914-1939, What Beck and Rydz Knew, History of Military Thought and Piłsudski's Army. He is also the author of a monograph of the civilian and military radio stations during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.