Project Eagle

Project Eagle tells the fascinating but little-known World War II story of Polish soldiers recruited from POW camps and trained to go behind German lines for intelligence gathering and espionage missions that would assist the Allies in their invasion of Germany and help bring the war to an end.

John S. Micgiel has served as director of the Institute on East Central Europe, associate director of the Harriman Institute, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Europe, and adjunct professor of international and public affairs—all at Columbia University. He is past president of the Kosciuszko Foundation, which promotes cultural exchange between the United States and Poland. In 2011 he received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, an award honoring service to the Polish-American community. Now retired from Columbia, Micgiel teaches at the University of Warsaw. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.