ENWacław Gdesz, a State Police senior leader in Vilnius. An internee in Lithuania in 1939. He stayed the longest in Palanga. In the summer of 1940, he was taken over by the Russians and taken to a work camp in the Kola Peninsula. Evacuated with Anders Army to Iran in 1942. The trawl of his war “tourism” covered the following places: Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Italy and Great Britain. After the liquidation of the Polish armed forces in the West, in December of 1947 he came back to the country. During the whole period of the war he wrote a sort of diary. He put down his everyday impressions and observations. They constitute the basis of this article. Keywords: Anders soldier, diary, WW II, internment, Lithuania–USSR–the Middle East–Italy–England, war tourism. [From the publication]