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ISBN-10: 1541602617
ISBN-13: 9781541602618
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 10/04/2022
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.54" W, 1.14" H

Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

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Overview

An “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II

For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The conflict that ensued 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.

Winner of the Polish Foreign Ministry History Prize

Shortlisted for the 2020 Wellington Military History Medal

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"As Roger Moorhouse relates in Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II, the short, savage campaign to crush the Poles, who fought against hopeless odds, proved to be 'a five-week struggle that prefaced nearly 300 weeks of slaughter'... He tells a tale of Polish gallantry, German brutality, and what he sees as Anglo-French perfidy."–New York Review of Books
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ISBN-10: 1541602617
ISBN-13: 9781541602618
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 10/04/2022
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.54" W, 1.14" H
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