A new, updated edition of the book charting the life of Wojtek, a 500-pound, cigarette smoking, beer-drinking brown bear who was adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran during WWII. He soon took on a more practical role, as a fully enlisted soldier. After the war he moved to Berwickshire and then to Edinburgh Zoo, and was a potent symbol of solidarity for Poles around the world. With a new epilogue by Neal Ascherson. *Cancelled*