A Breaking of Seals is the tale of a quest - the hunt to find essentially the most impressive and least remembered occasions of the second one international struggle. This was once the participation within the Slovak rebellion of 1944 of the French infantrymen who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, Hungary and Slovakia. less than the management of Captain Georges de Lannurien, they shaped a Detachement francais de warring parties de l. a. Tschecoslovaquie which fought beside the Slovak military through the rebellion and which later stood aspect by means of aspect with Slovak partisans as a part of the Stefanik Brigade.
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