The eagle unbowed : Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
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xxxi, 733 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Language
English
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"First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd., 2012"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
Kochanski, a British military historian, integrates concise, clear, and persuasive campaign analyses with an account of the brutality suffered by Poles under German and Soviet occupation during WWII. She also examines the complex internal politics of Poland's armed forces in exile, and Poland's international position. She incorporates the creation and performance of the 1st Polish Army on the Eastern Front into a narrative that in most Western accounts is too often dominated by action in Italy and Northwest Europe. Her treatment of the Polish Resistance and the 1944 uprising is excellent. She also establishes the complex mix of operations, logistics, and politics behind the Allies' limited support for the Home Army in Warsaw. Kochanski's sympathies clearly lie with Poland's exile government in London, but she neither conceals nor trivializes policies and decisions that often proved self-defeating. Kochanski also gives an account of the Holocaust and the thorny issue of Polish collaboration in it. Above all, this is a story of expedience: the critical decisions that had to be taken, the terrible role of sheer chance, ...the simple desire to survive under the most difficult circumstances. And expedients, as Kochanski ably demonstrates, are not always wise.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kochanski, H. (2014). The eagle unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.). Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kochanski, Halik. 2014. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War Harvard University Press, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed., Harvard University Press, 2014.
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