Full name: The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

Author: Halik Kochanski Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780674068148 9780674284005 0674068149 0674284003

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. Similar books: Rising '44 by Norman Davies After Hitler by Michael Jones Potsdam by Michael S. Neiberg Endgame, 1945 by David Stafford The Day the War Ended by Martin Gilbert Their Darkest Hour by Laurence Rees Most Secret War by R. V. Jones Into the Rising Sun by Patrick K. O'Donnell The Struggle for Europe by Chester Wilmot A War To Be Won by Williamson Murray The Bridge at Remagen by Ken Hechler 1939 by Richard Overy The Fall of Fortresses by Elmer Bendiner Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc by Douglas Brinkley 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent