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Author:
Roger Moorhouse
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
July 14, 2020
Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.
What The Reviewers Say
As Moorhouse helps us to see in this exemplary military history, to begin at the beginning of the war reveals where choices were made, and how they mattered.
The purpose of this very valuable addition to the literature on the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 is straightforward. Roger Moorhouse insists that too little attention has been paid in the West to the heroic resistance of the Poles to German aggression. They were, indeed, the first nation to stand up to Hitler’s appetite for empire and they paid a grim price for that decision. By the end of the war close to six million Poles, half of them Polish Jews, had perished.
...[a] chilling, indignant narrative.
Moorhouse’s readable narrative guides us through military events from the first German attack to the last skirmishes on October 6.
