Antoni Listowski

Symon Petliura and Antoni Listowski.

Antoni Listowski (29 March 1865, Warsaw - 13 September 1927, Warsaw) was a Polish military officer. He reached the rank of general and took part in the Polish-Soviet War.[1]

General Antoni Listowski won the battle for Pinsk in March 1919 commanding the 9th Infantry Division.[2][3] The city was taken over in a late-winter blizzard with considerable human losses sustained by his 34th Infantry Regiment who forced the Bolsheviks to retreat to the other side of the river.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

General Antoni Listowski, was a professional officer who had served in the Tsarist army. He had had wide experience on the front and possessed the temperament of an ardent fighter, particularly valuable when directing the kind of manoeuvres necessary in a war conducted on the country's borders. If it was a question of the operational problem of the 9th Division, then replacing Listowski with Sikorski was a very rash move. — Józef Lewandowski [8]

References

  1. ↑ Cloud & Olson; Stanley Cloud; Lynne Olson (2004). A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II. Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-375-72625-X.
  2. ↑ Dr. Andrzej Nieuważny, Nicolaus Copernicus University. Atlantyda Polesia. Księga Kresów Wschodnich. Rzeczpospolita 15 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Województwo Poleskie, rys historyczny. Kresy News. Lwów
  4. ↑ Maciej Rosalak, Ponury konflikt wśród poleskich błot (A gloomy fight in the Polesie mud) Rzeczpospolita, 14-04-2011.
  5. ↑ Dr. Andrzej Nieuważny, Atlantyda Polesia p. 4 of 6. Rzeczpospolita (newspaper) 15 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Mieczysław B. Biskupski, Piotr Stefan Wandycz. Ideology, Politics, and Diplomacy in East Central Europe. Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
  7. ↑ Davies, Norman (2005). God's Playground: A History of Poland. Columbia University Press. p. 192. ISBN 0-231-12819-3.
  8. 1 2 Józef Lewandowski. "History and Myth: Pinsk, April 1919". Polin 2, 1988.
  9. ↑ Davies, Norman, White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919–20, St. Martin's Press, 1972, Page 47-48
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