Summary

A tragic and honorable war overlooked by historians that stopped the invasion of a Soviet invasion into Western Europe - The Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920 is retold between the estranged father to his son that he secretly meets in a Paris café. An idealistic and practical American hero, Captain Cooper, who wishes to return the favor that Polish General Kosciusko did for America during its Revolutionary War, gathers a few brave and talented veteran Great War fighter pilots to enlist in the Polish Air Force, forming the 7th Kosciuszko Squadron; some of the most graphic and descriptive action scenes of early aerial and late cavalry warfare are depicted. Nina, a heroine who is every bit the hero's equal falls in love with Cooper never knowing if he'll return alive from their fighting sorties. Cooper is shot down, captured and interrogated by General Joseph Stalin. Then, his stint in the hell of Soviet prison camps and his dramatic and brilliant escape across 800 kilometers from Moscow to Riga, Latvia Red Cross; is finally reunited with Nina while receiving Poland's highest military honor, the Virtuti Militari.