Ebook: First to fight: the Polish War 1939
Author: Moorhouse Roger
- Tags: Military campaigns, World War 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland, History, World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Poland, Poland -- History -- Occupation 1939-1945, Poland
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Random House
- City: Poland
- Language: English
- epub
'This deeply researched, very well-written and penetrating book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when German tanks, trucks and infantry crossed the Polish border, and the Luftwaffe began bombing Poland's cities. The Polish army fought bravely but could not withstand an attacker superior in numbers and technology; and when the Red Army invaded from the east – as agreed in the pact Hitler had concluded with Stalin – the country's fate was sealed. Poland was the first to fight the German aggressor; it would be the first to suffer the full murderous force of Nazi persecution. By the end of the Second World War, one in five of its people had perished.
The Polish campaign is the forgotten story of the Second World War. Despite prefacing many of that conflict's later horrors – the wanton targeting...