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A carregar... The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World Warpor Halik Kochanski
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Very impressed with this book. Even though I am well versed in WWII history, I find I really had no idea of the extent of the Polish suffering, which was, as the author notes, the longest -lasting of any nation in WWII, literally from the first day of the war to the last. Everything is covered, from the trauma of the German invasion & conquest, Nazi atrocities against Poles and Jews alike, as well as Soviet atrocities against Polish refugees and captured Polish officers, the attempts to establish to a Polish government in exile and a Polish army to fight alongside the Allies, and the Big Power conniving which led to Poland being effectively betrayed and sacrificed to Stalin's ambitions by the British and Americans. Interestingly, the author, who is of Polish ancestry and whose family were caught up in the horrors described, and makes no secret of her bias, (not that I have any problem with that, if my family and nation had been subject to the same atrocities as hers was, I would feel exactly the same, in fact probably much less commendably restrained than Ms Kochanski is) devotes much more time to Soviet crimes against Poland than Nazi atrocities. It is quite clear from this book, that regardless of the horror unleashed against Poland by Hitler, Russia remains the eternal enemy as far as Poles are concerned. Even if you are not particularly interested in Polish history, it is nevertheless a great read, never becoming bogged down in excessive detail or statistics, full of passion, tragedy, triumph, and above all the fighting spirit of the Poles themselves, subjected to the horrors of occupation by two equally brutal totalitarian dictatorships, but never giving up on their dream of being free once more. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Referências a esta obra em recursos externos. Wikipédia em inglês (15)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. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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