Book of famous Polish historians Daria and Tomasz Nalench - popular science political biography of Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935) - one of the main historical figures of interwar Poland. For the Soviet reader, it opens a little-known page in the history of the Polish people, which was previously covered in a one-sided and simplified manner. The appendix contains fragments from book 3. Zalusky about the war of 1920 and from the diary of adjutant Yu. Pilsudsky captain M. Lepetsky about the last years of Marshal's life.