The eagle unbowed, Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, Halik Kochanski
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The eagle unbowed, Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, Halik Kochanski
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The eagle unbowed
Nature of contents
bibliography
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795857061
Responsibility statement
Halik Kochanski
Sub title
Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Summary
'Poland has not yet died, So long as we still live...' By almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following the destruction of its armed forces in the autumn of 1939, the Republic of Poland was partitioned between Nazi and Soviet forces and officially ceased to exist. Racial violence and ideological conformity were at the very heart of the new regimes. As the war progressed millions of Poles were killed, with each phase unleashing a further round, from the industrialised genocide of Treblinka to the crushing of the Warsaw Rising. Polish Jews were all to be murdered, Christians reduced to a semi-literate slave class. In this powerful and original new book Halik Kochanski has written perhaps the most important 'missing' work on the whole conflict: an attempt in a single volume to describe both the fate of those trapped within occupied Poland and of those millions of Poles who were able to escape
Table of contents
1.The Rebirth of Poland -- 2. Polish Foreign Policy, 1920-1939 -- 3. The September 1939 Campaign -- 4. The German and Soviet Occupation of Poland to June 1941 -- 5. Exile in the Soviet Union -- 6. Escape from the Soviet Union -- 7. Poland's Contribution to the Allied War Effort, 1940-1943 -- 8. Polish Non-combatants Outside Poland, 1939-1945 -- 9. The Dark Years: Occupied Poland, 1941-1943 -- 10. The Holocaust, 1941-1943 -- 11. Sikorski's Diplomacy, 1941-1943 -- 12. Threats to the Standing of the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Polish Underground Authorities -- 13. The Polish Dilemma: The Retreat of the Germans and the Advance of the Red Army -- 14. Poland: The Inconvenient Ally -- 15. Fighting under British Command, 1943-1945 -- 16. The End of the War -- 17. The Aftermath of the War -- 18. The Final Chapter
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adult
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