Название: The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Автор: Halik Kochanski
Издательство: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674068149
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 624
Размер: 5,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.