Research Catalog

Title

The eagle unbowed : Poland and the Poles in the Second World War / Halik Kochanski.

Author

Kochanski, Halik

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxxi, 733 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• 1918-1945
• World War > (1939-1945)
• Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris > Polish Delegation
• History
• Poland > Social conditions > 1918-1945
• Poland > Politics and government > 1918-1945
• Poland > History > 1918-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Poland
• World War, 1939-1945 > Poland

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books ... 2012"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 694-715) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Definitions of Poland and the Polish -- Guide to Polish Pronunciation -- The Rebirth of Poland -- Polish Foreign Policy, 1920-1939 -- The September 1939 Campaign -- The German and Soviet Occupation of Poland to June 1941 -- Exile in the Soviet Union -- Escape from the Soviet Union -- Poland's Contribution to the Allied War Effort, 1940-1943 -- Polish Non-combatants Outside Poland, 1939-1945 -- The Dark Years : Occupied Poland, 1941-1943 -- The Holocaust, 1941-1943 -- Sikorski's Diplomacy, 1941-1943 -- Threats to the Standing of the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Polish Underground Authorities -- The Polish Dilemma : The Retreat of the Germans and the Advance of the Red Army -- Poland : The Inconvenient Ally -- Fighting under British Command, 1943-1945 -- The End of the War -- The Aftermath of the War -- The Final Chapter -- Appendix 1: Order of Battle of the Polish Army, 1939-1945 -- Appendix 2: Principal Polish Personalities.

ISBN

• 9780674068148 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0674068149 (cloth : alkaline paper)

LCCN

^^2012026952

OCLC

• 792886974
• SCSB-12753287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library