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Author : Nicholas Bethell
Publisher : Lane, Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The War Hitler Won, September 1939 written by Nicholas Bethell and published by Lane, Allen. This book was released on 1972 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Moorhouse
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465095410
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Poland 1939 written by Roger Moorhouse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147284789X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Blitzkrieg written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations. On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a new type of offensive warfare: Blitzkrieg. So named by Allied observers because of the shock and rapidity of its effects, this new approach was based on speed, manoeuvrability and concentration of firepower. The strategy saw startling success as the panzer divisions, supported by Stuka dive-bombers, spread terror and mayhem, reaching Warsaw in just one week. Aided by the intervention of the Soviet Union in the east, the campaign was over in a mere 36 days. This astonishing feat was followed by Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Denmark and then Norway in 1940, the first joint air-sea-land campaign in the history of warfare. Even more striking an achievement was the swift and conclusive defeat of France during May–June 1940. Refusing to let its forces dash themselves against the fortifications of the Maginot Line, Germany instead sent its divisions through neutral Belgium and northern France in Fall Gelb ('Case Yellow'), destroying Allied resistance and pursuing the remnant of the British and French forces to Dunkirk in an audacious and devastatingly effective assault. During the course of Fall Rot ('Case Red') over the following 20 days, German forces pressed the attack and by 25 June had forced France's leaders into a humiliating capitulation. Illustrated throughout with detailed maps, artwork and contemporary photographs, Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France tells the story of these first breakneck attacks, examining the armed forces, leaders, technology, planning and execution in each campaign as well as the challenges faced by the Germans in the pursuit of this new and deadly form of warfare.
Author : L. C. SAXTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Fall of Poland; Containing an Analytical and a Philosophical Account of the Causes which Conspired in the Ruin of that Nation, Together with a History of the Country from Its Origin written by L. C. SAXTON and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrzej Paczkowski
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047539
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Spring Will Be Ours written by Andrzej Paczkowski and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spring Will Be Ours focuses on the turbulent half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which started the chain of events that would lead to the communist takeover of Poland, to 1989, when futile attempts to reform the communist system gave way to its total transformation. Andrzej Paczkowski shows how the communists captured and consolidated power, describes their use of terror and propaganda, and illuminates the changes that took place within the governing elite. He also documents the political opposition to the regime - both inside Poland and abroad - that resulted in upheavals in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, and 1980. His narrative makes evident the pressures that the elite felt from above, from Moscow, and from below, from the population and from within the party. The history of Poland and the Poles is of special interest because on numerous occasions in the twentieth century this relatively small country influenced developments on a global scale.
Author : Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739104842
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Between Nazis and Soviets written by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Janów to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies.
Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014263
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 written by Joshua D. Zimmerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.
Author : Jerzy Lukowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185332X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Poland written by Jerzy Lukowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history from medieval times to the present day.
Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071050
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Eagle Unbowed written by Halik Kochanski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jonas Scherner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107049709
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Paying for Hitler's War written by Jonas Scherner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.
Author : Jaff Schatz
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520370600
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Generation written by Jaff Schatz and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Author : Robert Forczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472834941
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Case White written by Robert Forczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to use its new Panzers and dive-bombers. The Polish military is often misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and outclassed by the Wehrmacht, when in fact it was well-equipped with modern weapons and armour. Indeed, the Polish possessed more tanks than the British and had cracked the German Enigma machine cipher. Though the combined assault from Germany and the Soviet Union defeated Poland, it could not crush the Polish fighting spirit and thousands of soldiers and airmen escaped to fight on other fronts. The result of Case White was a brutal occupation, as Polish Slavs found themselves marginalized and later eliminated, paving the way for Hitler's vision of Lebensraum (living space) and his later betrayal and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Using a wide array of sources, Robert Forczyk challenges the myths of Case White to tell the full story of the invasion that sparked history's greatest conflict.
Author : Steven Saxonberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134435142
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Fall written by Steven Saxonberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USA The Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the process of collapse so different from country to country? This major study explains why the impetus for change in Poland and Hungary came from the regimes themselves, while in Czechoslovakia and East Germany it was mass movements which led to the downfall of the regimes.
Author : William L. Shirer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich written by William L. Shirer and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Nazi Germany.
Author : Katharina Friedla
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644697513
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959) written by Katharina Friedla and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Stefan Korboński
Publisher : New York : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Polish Underground State written by Stefan Korboński and published by New York : Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geneviève Zubrzycki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226993051
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Crosses of Auschwitz written by Geneviève Zubrzycki and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland’s borders, Geneviève Zubrzycki sees it as a particularly crucial moment in the development of post-Communist Poland’s statehood and its changing relationship to Catholicism. In The Crosses of Auschwitz, Zubrzycki skillfully demonstrates how this episode crystallized latent social conflicts regarding the significance of Catholicism in defining “Polishness” and the role of anti-Semitism in the construction of a new Polish identity. Since the fall of Communism, the binding that has held Polish identity and Catholicism together has begun to erode, creating unease among ultranationalists. Within their construction of Polish identity also exists pride in the Polish people’s long history of suffering. For the ultranationalists, then, the crosses at Auschwitz were not only symbols of their ethno-Catholic vision, but also an attempt to lay claim to what they perceived was a Jewish monopoly over martyrdom. This gripping account of the emotional and aesthetic aspects of the scene of the crosses at Auschwitz offers profound insights into what Polishness is today and what it may become.
