Raised by an Assassin 

True Life stories - Non-Fiction 
 

English Edition | Non‑Fiction
ISBN: 9798267918244 (Soft Cover

ISBN: 9798267919036 (Hard Cover)

ASIN: ‎B0FTMDRT4G (Kindle)
 

" MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHAMELEONIC ASSASSIN IT HAS NEVER KNOWN ABOUT, UNTIL NOW! "

    Some inherit wealth. I inherited danger.

For nearly twenty-four years, I believed my father was just an ordinary man the quiet father. Actually, so quiet, withdrawn, almost invisible in public.
     He shuffled when he walked, stumbled over his own bicycle, and lived a life so unassuming it bordered on anonymity actually ridiculousness. To the outside world, he was just another dumb Polish immigrant father, a man who avoided attention and carried himself with a kind of deliberate smallness.

    But in the final months of his life, as death drew near, he revealed to me a truth so staggering it shattered everything I ever thought I knew: my father was not just ordinary at all. He was the world’s most lethal assassin and superspy of the twentieth century.

    'Raised by an Assassin' is the true story of that revelation—and of the double life my father, Bronisław Urbanski, who lived in silence. Behind the mask of a gentle, stumbling parent was a man who had shaped the course of history from the shadows. A man who had been hunted by SMERSH, who had carried out missions so dangerous the British War Office never expected him to survive, and who inspired Ian Fleming’s creation of James Bond himself.

    This book is not just about espionage and assassination—it is about the collision of myth and memory, of history and family. It is about the moment a son realizes that the man who raised him, the man who seemed so fragile and human, was in fact a figure of almost superhuman lethality and cunning.

    Through archival evidence, eyewitness accounts, and my own lived experience, I reconstruct the hidden life of my father: the Polish cryptologist who passed not only the 'Enigma' but its secrets to Britain, the assassin codenamed the “White Ghost,” the lover and comrade of 'Krystyna' like him a Pole but to the British and especially PM Winston Churchill he loved her as his favorite spy as SOE Christine Granville. Plus, a man whose physical features, scars, and habits were woven directly into the DNA of James Bond.

    Yet at its heart, 'Raised by an Assassin' is not only a history of war and espionage—it is a son’s reckoning with legacy. How do you reconcile the quiet father who raised you with the assassin who changed the world? How do you live with the knowledge that the man who taught you to ride a bike was also the man who toppled governments (Poland), sabotaged aircraft, and outwitted the deadliest intelligence services of his age?

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— A life lived on the edge, shaped by the invisible hand of epigenetics, and driven by a refusal to back down.

​​    Peter Urbanski—acclaimed historian & author, and son of wartime intelligence officer/super spy and assassin Bronisław Urbanski—presents being raised by his father.  His other works are already globally recognised and his acclaimed book 'To Live Well is to Hide Well' 2024, and his recent bookS 'Living with James Bond' 2025 & 'The Chapters' 2025
 

    Peter's previous books have even been validated by Global Experts / Historians / Professors / Scholars and recognised by Governments

    Renowned figures have examined Urbanski’s evidence like his first book, tested its accuracy, and agreed with him: The Author's previous published books are fact checked by Historians, Professors, WW2 Air Crash Investigators and Governments - worldwide.

• Stewart Egerton, historical researcher of WW2, Interviewed Bronislaw Urbanski's partner 'Teddy' an Cichociemni and MI6 Agent during WW2 in the early 1980s. Studied History (college major) & Historical Research at University of Liverpool (England) Graduated 1996

• Chris Wroblewski, co‑author with Barnard of ‘Sabotage!’ (Grub Street, 2023), whose work affirms the book’s conclusions and dismantles all rival theories. Acclaims the authors works and father's involvement, ruling out everything else known.

• Garth Barnard — WWII air crash investigator whose independent research supports Urbanski’s findings. Producer of ‘Sikorski’s Last Flight’ 2015 & co-author of ‘Sabotage!’ 2023

• Professor Peter Zablocki — American–Polish historian, author of ‘The Death of General Sikorski’ (2024), whose work aligns with Urbanski’s proof. Even though Peter did not have the current version of the book that now contains the proof photograph of Bronislaw next to Sikorski’s body.

• Professor Norman Davies — legendary historian, who includes Urbanski’s conclusion in ‘Plus Ultra’ (2024, Polish edition).

• Poland's IPN Chief Prosecutor — investigation has been raised on 2nd July 2025 with Governments (Poland to Australia) MLA has been enacted 2nd July 2025 as Governments to consider the interrogation this author regarding the mysterious death of PM and General Wladyslaw Sikorski on the 4th of July 1943.
  Let's wait and see how it all pans out between the governments.
  Plus, too many more to list!
  To Live Well is to Hide Well has * 5 x Stars (Apple Podcasts)
   

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