They helped secure the freedoms we all enjoy today – but their stories of courage, loss and sacrifice mean nothing to the vandals who attack their final resting place. Tucked away in a dark and damp corner of St Joseph’s cemetery in Moston is a collection of about 100 graves whose crypts hide stories of barely-conceivable suffering, unimaginable loss and incredible bravery. This is the Polish section. Many of these tombs are official war graves of decorated soldiers, pilots, resistance fighters and nurses who fled the twin tyranny of Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s ‘red army’ of Russia which, one...