Lech Wyszczelski

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Lech Wyszczelski is a Polish military historian and author of books on Central European history of the 20th century. A professor at various universities, he is best known for roughly 300 books and publications on the Polish-Bolshevik War and the Polish Army in the antebellum.

He currently holds a post at the Academy of National Defence in Warsaw, the Pułtusk-based Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna im. A. Gieysztora, and Akademia Podlaska in Siedlce.

Among the most notable of his books are a series of monographs on various operations of the Polish-Bolshevik War, including the Kiev 1920, Warsaw 1920, Battle at the Outskirts of Warsaw; 13-25th of August of 1920 and The Undeclared War. Polish-Russian military activity of 1919. Among the works of a wider scope are Polish Military Thought 1914-1939, What Beck and Rydz Knew, History of Military Thought and Piłsudski's Army. He is also the author of a monograph of the civilian and military radio stations during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.