Great Britain The Soviet Union And The Polish Government In Exile 1939 1945

Author : G.V. Kacewicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400992726

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Great Britain, The Soviet Union and the Polish Government in Exile (1939–1945) by G.V. Kacewicz Pdf

In this book I have attempted to analyze the dilemmas confronting the Polish government-in-exile in London during the Second World War. My main objective has beeen to investigate the actual operation of the Polish govern ment and the overall policies of the British government vis-a-vis the Soviet Union insofar as they had a direct bearing on Anglo-Polish relations. Since the outstanding conflicts over territorial claims, and, ultimately, sovereignty, were between Poland and the Soviet Union, considerable attention has been devoted to the relationship between the Polish and Soviet governments during a most trying and difficult period of inter-Allied diplomacy. This work covers the period of operation of the Polish government on British soil until the resignation of Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk in November 1944. Although Great Britain did not withdraw diplomatic recognition from the Polish government until July 1945, the Arciszewski government, formed after Mikolajczyk's resignation, was generally ignored by Great Britain. As with all subsequent governments, including that which exists today, Arciszewski's government functioned primarily as the voice of Poland in the West - a government of protest.

Author : Evan McGilvray
Publisher : Helion Studies in Military His
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1908916974

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A Military Government in Exile by Evan McGilvray Pdf

This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Before 1939 there had been little contact between Poland and Britain. Between 1939 and 1945, however, the two countries were joined in a common desire for the military defeat of Germany: this was virtually the only common goal that the two governments shared; Polish ambitions to see Poland restored to its pre-war frontiers were not shared with the major allies (Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union) after 1941. The question of differing objectives caused friction between the Western allies, the Soviet Union and the Polish Government-in-Exile. As hosts the British Government was able to control the Polish Government-in-Exile but frequently found that the demands of the Soviet Government on the latter difficult to justify, although the British did so in order to maintain the unity of the alliance against Germany. However, the Polish Government-in-Exile failed to recognize its true position in the alliance: it was very much a junior partner - just another minor European power and irritant. Another problem in the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile was, what kind of government was it? Between 1926 and 1939, a military clique had ruled Poland and the signs were that in exile very little had changed in the mindset of many Poles, especially those military officers who arrived in exile after 1939. This situation vexed the British Government, which sought to work with democratically minded Poles, but found this pool to be limited owing to the continuing political influence of the Polish military in exile. This attitude worsened as the war progressed until eventually the Polish Government-in-Exile lost any relevance in the war against Germany. Making full use of unpublished material and Polish sources, this is a detailed and lucid contribution to modern Polish and European history, including much information concerning the creation of the Polish Army following the end of the First World War, and the politics of the Army during the 1920s and 1930s, besides detailed coverage of its political role during the Second World War.

Author : Anita Prazmowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521483859

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Britain and Poland 1939-1943 by Anita Prazmowska Pdf

Poland was a problematic issue for the Big Powers throughout the Second World War. For Britain, Poland was a major stumbling block in British-Soviet relations as Polish-Soviet territorial disputes clashed with the needs of the British-Soviet-United States alliance. As the Polish government-in-exile attempted to obtain a guarantee of British support, and many thousands of Polish troops fought for the British cause, the perception grew that the Churchill government had a debt to pay. Ultimately, however, it was a debt which Britain could not discharge because of its dependence on Soviet participation in the war. In this book Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies. She describes a tragic situation where Polish soldiers were trapped between the grandiose and unrealistic plans of their government and the harsh realities of a war which they fought with no prospect of a satisfactory outcome for them or their country.

Author : Bernadeta Tendyra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0415454697

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The Polish Government in Exile, 1939-45 by Bernadeta Tendyra Pdf

The "Polish Question" was both the immediate cause of the Second World War, and because of Stalin’s imposition of Soviet rule on Poland at the end of the war a cause of the Cold War which followed. How to resolve the "Polish Question" was a theme which affected international relations and planning for the post-war world throughout the war, and complicating the picture hugely was the Polish government-in-exile, which was led until 1943 by General Sikorski based in London, which had its own very strong views on the future for Poland, but which was divided by intense factional in-fighting. This book examines the Polish government-in-exile, discusses its internal factions and why they existed, and assesses the government-in-exile’s wider impact. It shows how Polish exile diplomacy was more important than hitherto recognised in shaping Allied wartime policy, how the Polish exiles’ tenacious clinging to ideals of Polish nationhood shaped their policies, though not in a united way, and how Sikorski struggled, controversially in the teeth of opposition from some of his colleagues, and ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a Polish military presence in the east alongside the Red Army, with the aim of establishing a future Poland which would be independent, but an ally, though not a subordinate, of the Soviet Union. Overall, the book demonstrates the importance of the Polish exiles in maintaining the Polish sense of nationhood, with its attendant obsession with history, martyrdom and defining insecure borders.

Author : Instytut Historyczny imienia Generała Sikorskiego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Poland
ISBN : UOM:39015058019665

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Documents on Polish-Soviet Relations, 1939-1945: 1943-1945 by Instytut Historyczny imienia Generała Sikorskiego Pdf

Author : Jan Karski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442226654

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The Great Powers and Poland by Jan Karski Pdf

This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.

Author : Roman Umiastowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082596367

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Poland, Russia and Great Britain, 1941-1945 by Roman Umiastowski Pdf

Author : Vít Smetana,Kathleen Geaney
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788024637013

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Exile in London by Vít Smetana,Kathleen Geaney Pdf

During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historians from nine countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia—this book explores life in exile as experienced by the governments of Czechoslovakia and other occupied nations who found refuge in the British capital. Through new archival research and fresh historical interpretations, chapters delve into common characteristics and differences in the origin and structure of the individual governments-in-exile in an attempt to explain how they dealt with pressing social and economic problems at home while abroad; how they were able to influence crucial allied diplomatic negotiations; the relative importance of armies, strategic commodities, and equipment that particular governments-in-exile were able to offer to the Allied war effort; important wartime propaganda; and early preparations for addressing postwar minority issues.

Author : Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4055622

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Poland in the British Parliament, 1939-1945: Su. 1944-Su. 1945 by Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey Pdf

Author : Norman Davies,Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349217892

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Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46 by Norman Davies,Antony Polonsky Pdf

This book is the first to deal with the impact on the Jews of the area of the sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and 1941 affected the development of Polish-Jewish relations under Nazi rule and in the USSR. The role of these conflicts both in the Anders army and in the Communist-led Kosciuszko division and 1st Polish Army is investigated, as well as the part played by Jews in the communist-dominated regime in Poland after 1944.

Author : Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4055620

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Poland in the British Parliament, 1939-1945 by Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey Pdf

Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071056

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The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski Pdf

The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews. In The Eagle Unbowed, Halik Kochanski tells, for the first time, the story of Poland's war in its entirety, a story that captures both the diversity and the depth of the lives of those who endured its horrors. Most histories of the European war focus on the Allies' determination to liberate the continent from the fascist onslaught. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history.

Author : Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X002417414

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Poland in the British Parliament, 1939-1945 by Wacław Jędrzejewicz,Pauline Catherine Ramsey Pdf

Author : Susan Butler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307741813

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Roosevelt and Stalin by Susan Butler Pdf

In Roosevelt and Stalin, Susan Butler tells the story of how the leader of the capitalist world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II. They shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and formed an uneasy yet deep friendship, shaping the global stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century. The book makes clear that Roosevelt worked hard to win Stalin over, by always holding out the promise that Roosevelt’s own ideas were the best hope for the future peace and security of Russia. Stalin, however, was initially unconvinced that Roosevelt’s planned world organization, even with police powers, would be strong enough to keep Germany from starting a new war. In the end we see how Stalin’s opinion of Roosevelt evolved and how he began to view FDR as the key to peace. Roosevelt and Stalin is a revelatory portrait of this crucial, geopolitical partnership.

Author : David Engel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029287565

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Facing a Holocaust by David Engel Pdf

Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945