The Polish Underground 1939 1947

Author : David G. Williamson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473817285
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish Underground, 1939–1947 written by David G. Williamson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Polish resistance movement chronicles the operations of various factions from WWII through the postwar battle for power. The Polish partisan army famously fought with tenacity against the Wehrmacht during World War II. Yet the wider story of the Polish underground movement, which opposed both the Nazi and Soviet occupying powers, has rarely been told. In this concise and authoritative study, historian David Williamson presents a major reassessment of the actions, impact and legacy of Polish resistance. The Polish resistance movement sprang up after the German invasion of 1939. As the war progressed, it took many forms, including propaganda, spying, assassination, disruption, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Many groups were involved, including isolated partisan bands, the Jewish resistance, and the Home Army which confronted the Germans in the disastrous Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Going beyond the Second World War, Williamson's graphic account chronicles the clandestine civil war between the Communists and former members of the Home Army that continued until the Communist regime took power in 1947.

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014263
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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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 : Stefan Korbonski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914710325
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish underground state written by Stefan Korbonski and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G Williamson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842813
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish Underground 1939-1947 written by David G Williamson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polish partisan army, the largest in Europe, fought with extraordinary tenacity against the Wehrmacht during the Warsaw Uprising. This was the most famous manifestation of organized, large-scale, armed resistance to Hitler's rule. Yet the wider story of the Polish underground movement, which fought the Nazi and Soviet occupying powers, has rarely been told. As David Williamson demonstrates in this concise and authoritative new study, a reassessment of the actions, the impact and the legacy of Polish resistance is long overdue. He tells a fascinating, often tragic story. The resistance movement sprang up rapidly after the shock of defeat of 1939, and the network grew and adapted as the war progressed. It took many forms – propaganda, spying, assassination, disruption, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Many different groups – some with conflicting aims and loyalties - were involved. There were isolated partisan bands, the Jewish resistance which fought defiantly against deportation to the death camps, and the Home Army which confronted the Germans in Warsaw with such disastrous consequences in 1944. The scale and intensity of the resistance movement, which was fighting against overwhelming odds, were quite remarkable. David Williamson's graphic account goes beyond the formal end of the Second World War, for Poland remained in a state of flux as a clandestine civil war was waged between the Communists and former members of the Home Army until the Communist regime took power in 1947. His study offers an absorbing insight into the plight of Poland during the war and into its immediate post-war history.

Author : Stefan Korboński
Publisher : New York : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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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 : Stefan Korbonski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Warsaw written by Stefan Korbonski and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Korboński
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Warsaw written by Stefan Korboński and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739104842
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 : Witold Biegański
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polish Resistance Movement in Poland and Abroad, 1939-1945 written by Witold Biegański and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Korboński
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Warsaw written by Stefan Korboński and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: