© Jürgen Sauer

"... if we did not already guess the significance of the many martial monuments—the tanks, artillery pieces, and bombers—frozen into place on the verdant fields scattered throughout these wooded hills, we were about to get a lesson. For, as the most vulnerable point of an enduring (if shifting) political border, the Dukla Pass’s greatest fame comes not from peaceful migration, or trade, or even banditry, but from invasion, warfare, and bloodshed—as depicted in the Museum of the Battle of the Dukla Pass."

— page 52, Into the Carpathians, Part 2
© Alan E. Sparks