{"product_id":"9781804253908","title":"The Tailor of Inverness","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Matthew Zajac\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 September 2026 by LUATH PRESS LTD in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e132 x 198 x 24mm | 260g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tailor of Inverness is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis story is not straightforward. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced to work east of the Urals, then freed in an amnesty after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran, then Egypt, to be integrated into the British Army, fighting in North Africa and Italy. He was then resettled in Britain in 1948, joining his brother in Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story he told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut was the tailor really who he said he was?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Zajac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66381974012253,"sku":"9781804253908","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781804253908","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}