This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns.

Welcome to the World War II podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. Today we're uncovering one of the great enigmas of the war, the tragic death of General Vladislav Sikorski. Sikorski was a towering figure

in the Polish government in exile, a man who held together the hopes

of a nation during the darkest days. His sudden death, in 1943, when his Liberator crashed

into the sea near Gibraltar, shocked the world and raised a swirl of questions that linger

to this day. Was it an accident? Sabotage or something more sinister.

To help unravel this mystery, I'm joined by Chris Robleski,

who, with World War II Air Crash Detectives, Gareth Bernard,

is the author of Sabotage, an in-depth investigation into the

1943 Liberator crash that killed General Sikorski.

With Garth, he has pieced together a gripping tale of conspiracy, wartime politics and

investigative research. Chris, thanks for joining me. We're going to be discussing General

Sikorsky. Now, it may not be a name that I think many people

will be familiar with. Who was he?

Sikorsky, he had been in the 1920s during the Second Republic. At one point, he had been the

prime minister, and later he had been a minister of military affairs. He had fought in their

war of independence and also against some Russian incursions. And then after, you'll forgive me,

the Pudlinsky coup, like the Marshall Pudlinsky, when he came into power,

Sikorsky fell out of favor with him.

He had been popular with Linsky at one point because he had fought him the wars.

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