Poland In The Second World War

Author : Roger Moorhouse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465095414

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Poland 1939 by Roger Moorhouse Pdf

A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London). For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.

Author : Józef Garliński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081631819

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Poland in the Second World War by Józef Garliński Pdf

Author : Andrew Rawson
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526743922

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Poland's Struggle by Andrew Rawson Pdf

Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding its control on Europe. The Wehrmacht's attack on 1 September 1939 was followed by a Red Army invasion two weeks later. The people of Poland were then subjected to a terrifying campaign of murder, imprisonment and enslavement which only increased as the war dragged on. Polish Catholics faced violence and deportation as they adapted to the draconian laws implemented by the German authorities. Meanwhile, the Polish Jews were forced into ghettos while the plans for the Final Solution were implemented. They then faced annihilation in the Holocaust, code named Operation Reinhard. Despite the dangers, many Poles joined the underground war against their oppressors, while those who escaped sought to fight for their nation's freedom from abroad. They sent intelligence to the west, attacked German installations, carried out assassinations and rose up to confront their enemy, all against impossible odds. The advance of the Red Army brought new problems, as the Soviet's dreaded NKVD introduced its own form of terror, hunting down anyone who fought for an independent nation. The story concludes with Poland's experience behind the Iron Curtain, ending with the return of democracy by 1991.

Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Josef Garlinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349099108

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Poland in the Second World War by Josef Garlinski Pdf

Author : Evan McGilvray
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473889729

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Poland and the Second World War, 1938–1948 by Evan McGilvray Pdf

A detailed chronicle of Poland’s efforts during World War II from beginning to end, by the author of Narvik and the Allies. The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance, Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war against Germany, resisting the occupier within their homeland and fighting in exile with the Allied forces. Evan McGilvray, drawing on intensive research in Polish sources, gives a comprehensive account of Poland’s war. He reveals the complexities of Poland’s relationship with the Allies (forced to accept their Soviet enemies as allies after 1941, then betrayed to Soviet occupation in the post-war settlement), as well as the divisions between Polish factions that led to civil war even before the defeat of Germany. The author narrates all the fighting involving Polish forces, including such famous actions as the Battle of Britain, Tobruk, Normandy, Arnhem, and the Warsaw Rising, but also lesser known aspects such as Kopinski’s Carpathian Brigade in Italy, Polish troops under Soviet command, and the capture of Wilhelmshaven on the last day of the war.

Author : Ewa Stańczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030322625

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Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland by Ewa Stańczyk Pdf

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to dictate the tone of the politics of memory for more than a decade. The book shows that 2001 marked a caesura in Poland’s post-Communist history, as this was when the past took center stage in Polish political life. It argues that during this period a distinct culture of commemoration emerged in Poland – one that was not only governed by what the electorate wanted to hear and see, but also fueled by emotions.

Author : Kenneth K. Koskodan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780962221

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No Greater Ally by Kenneth K. Koskodan Pdf

An in-depth history of the Polish soldiers who served in World War 2, with previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photographs. There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. This book gives a full overview of Poland's participation in World War II. Following their valiant but doomed defence of Poland in 1939, members of the Polish armed forces fought with the Allies wherever and however they could. Full of previously unpublished accounts, and rare photographs, this title provides a detailed analysis of the devastation the war brought to Poland, and the final betrayal when, having fought for freedom for six long years, Poland was handed to the Soviet Union.

Author : Magdalena Grzebalkowska
Publisher : Russian and East European Stud
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0822945991

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Poland 1945 by Magdalena Grzebalkowska Pdf

The official end of World War II did not mean the end of the torments inflicted on civilians. This book brings us vivid personal accounts of ordinary people in Poland--Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and others--caught up in the most violent war in history and its aftermath. No place experienced more intense suffering for a longer period of time than Poland--the first country to be invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and the last to be "liberated". This is the story of how people survived the flames of war, and began to clear the rubble and try to rebuild their lives, from January to December 1945.

Author : Joanna Wawrzyniak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Veterans
ISBN : 3631640498

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Veterans, Victims, and Memory by Joanna Wawrzyniak Pdf

In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a -mnemonic standoff- with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established."

Author : Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204476

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On the Edges of Whiteness by Jochen Lingelbach Pdf

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079

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The Second World War by Antony Beevor Pdf

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.

Author : Stanisław Żochowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013490225

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British Policy in Relation to Poland in the Second World War by Stanisław Żochowski Pdf

Author : Tadeusz Piotrowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0786455365

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The Polish Deportees of World War II by Tadeusz Piotrowski Pdf

Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941. This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign told in the words of some of the survivors. It is an unforgettable human drama of excruciating martyrdom in the Gulag. For example, one witness reports: “A young woman who had given birth on the train threw herself and her newborn under the wheels of an approaching train.” Survivors also tell the story of events after the “amnesty.” “Our suffering is simply indescribable. We have spent weeks now sleeping in lice-infested dirty rags in train stations,” wrote the Milewski family. Details are also given on the non-European countries that extended a helping hand to the exiles in their hour of need.

Author : Katharina Friedla,Markus Nesselrodt
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644697511

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Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959) by Katharina Friedla,Markus Nesselrodt Pdf

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.