Author: Władysław SikorskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
General Sikorski's Speeches During His Visit to the United States in December 1942
Author: Władysław SikorskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
Author: Joshua D. ZimmermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground - the resistance organization loyal to the Polish government-in-exile - toward the Jews during World War II. Using a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs, Zimmerman offers a careful, dispassionate narrative, arguing that the reaction of the Polish Underground to the catastrophe that befell European Jewry was immensely varied, ranging from aggressive aid to acts of murder. By analyzing the military, civilian, and political wings of the Polish Underground and offering portraits of the organization's main leaders, this book is the first full-length scholarly monograph in any language to provide a thorough examination of the Polish Underground's attitude and behavior towards the Jews during the entire period of World War II.
The Death of General Sikorski
Author: Peter ZablockiPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399039261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The plane crash at the height of the Second World War which claimed the life of the Polish Prime Minister, General W?adys?aw Sikorski, ranks among the most enduring mysteries of the conflict. It was a death that shifted European alliances and loyalties, brought Stalin into the Anglo-American camp, and sealed Poland's fate for the remainder of the twentieth century. Poland and the Soviet Union’s historically precarious relationship had taken an even darker turn in September 1939 when the Third Reich’s Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin divided the nation and forced its government to relocate first to France and then to Britain in 1940. Sikorski’s Polish government-in-exile established a military, political, and personal relationship with Winston Churchill’s government, only to see it fractured by the United States’ entrance into the war and the Western Allies’ courtship of Stalin following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. The Allies overall support of Stalin’s denials following the 1943 discovery of 20,000 bodies of Polish officers murdered and buried by the Soviets in Katyn Forest only made matters worse. Sikorski’s open protests against describing the Soviet dictator as a benevolent ‘Uncle Joe’ made him publicly and privately ‘difficult’ to the new Anglo-American-Soviet coalition. As per reports of the British and Polish intelligence services, seemingly not doing enough to stand up to the Soviets had also strained Sikorski’s relationship with different Polish government factions. Leaving from a layover stop at Gibraltar on 4 July 1943, having visited Polish Army units in Iran, Sikorski's RAF Liberator, AL523, crashed into the sea just sixteen seconds into its flight. while Stalin privately blamed Churchill, the Germans were more public in accusing the British. Others pointed to the Soviets or even the Poles. A British Court of Inquiry convened in 1943 presented an inconclusive report on the crash’s cause or foul play and locked up most of its files until 2043. Lacking a respected leader, Poland fell out of favour with the Allies, who allowed Stalin to redraw the Polish borders and establish a pro-communist puppet state in Poland until 1990. Not only exploring what happened on that fateful day in 1943, but also the events leading up to it and those that followed, The Death of General Sikorski is more of a political thriller than a conspiracy book, telling an often complex, and enthralling story of a tragedy within a tragedy – that of a man and his nation.
The Great Powers and Poland
Author: Jan KarskiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144222665X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.
Behold! The Polish-Americans
Author: Joseph Anthony WytrwalPublisher: Detroit : Endurance Press
ISBN:
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
A history of the Polish-Americans and their influence on American history and culture.
Widener Library Shelflist: General European and world history
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945
Author: Peter D. StachuraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134289499
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history.
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Author: Joyce Merriam