Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I roto i te kupu whakataki o te tau 1947, ka tuhituhi a Wańkowicz: "Ko te nuinga o tenei pukapuka i tuhia i te tau 1939, hei whakaatu i a maatau pakanga. I taua wā, ko ngā mea katoa i mōhiotia e te ao mō Hepetema, i ahu mai i ō tātou hoariri, nā rātau i hora ngā teka mō te pakanga i roa i ngā rā tekau mā waru anake. I miharo te ao he aha i ārai ai a Finland iti i a ia anō
mo te wa roa. Koinei te take i tuhituhi ai ahau i te pukapuka i te tere, kaore he puna, me te whaainga kotahi - ki te whakaatu i te wairua whawhai Polish. Nō reira, ehara taku pukapuka i te pūrongo mō te pakanga ake, engari he kōrero mō te wairua o Porihi i te marama o Mahuru 1939 (...) I haereere tahi au me ngā whārangi i te ao katoa, ā, i te tau 1943 i whai wāhitanga au ki te whakaputa i ngā kōrero, he tokomaha i ngaro (...) I tēnei wā, i te nui o ngā tāngata mai i ngā olag, i ngā gulags me Poland i uru mai ki a mātou, kua puta ake te hiahia kia whakaputa anōtia te pukapuka mō ngā Poari i Ingarangi. Kei te tāpiri atu ahau ki a "Westerplatte", te kōrero o te ope rererangi a General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, me te kōrero a Major Hubal".