Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 write by Stefan Korbonski. This book was released on 2016-03-28. Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fighting Warsaw is a human story. Stefan Korbonski, the leader of the Polish Underground State, portrays the years of the German occupation during the Second World War and the beginning of anti-Soviet underground activities thereafter. His story presents the entire organization, strategy, and tactics of the Polish underground, which included armed resistance, civil disobedience, sabotage, and boycotts. “...The Polish Underground was perhaps the best organized and most active of all wartime undergrounds; and Stefan Korbonski is well qualified to tell its story....He was, almost immediately after the fighting had stopped, arrested by the Russians...he managed to regain his freedom, and it is to this happy release that we owe this book, an absorbing account of Poland’s fight for freedom These are the highly personal memoirs of an active conspirator and, in their vivid detail and exciting anecdotes, they are probably more successful in conveying a sense of what the resistance was actually like than a more comprehensive treatment would be...Few people who read the author’s chapters on this one aspect of the resistance will fail to be moved by them or to come away from them with an increased understanding of the prerequisites of successful opposition to an occupying power that is both efficient and ruthless.”—GORDON CRAIG, New York Herald Tribune “...Fighting Warsaw...is one of the most absorbing, inspiring and ultimately disheartening documents to come out of the last war....The book, which is detailed and written with humor, modesty, and a surprising lack of rancor, makes it quite plain that there is an indomitable quality in the Poles that will prevent them from ever giving up their great dream....”—The New Yorker
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 write by Joshua D. Zimmerman. This book was released on 2015-06-05. The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.
The Polish Underground State
The Polish Underground State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polish Underground State write by Stefan Korboński. This book was released on 1981. The Polish Underground State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Polish Underground, 1939–1947
The Polish Underground, 1939–1947 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polish Underground, 1939–1947 write by David G. Williamson. This book was released on 2012-04-12. The Polish Underground, 1939–1947 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the Polish resistance movement chronicles the operations of various factions from WWII through the postwar battle for power. The Polish partisan army famously fought with tenacity against the Wehrmacht during World War II. Yet the wider story of the Polish underground movement, which opposed both the Nazi and Soviet occupying powers, has rarely been told. In this concise and authoritative study, historian David Williamson presents a major reassessment of the actions, impact and legacy of Polish resistance. The Polish resistance movement sprang up after the German invasion of 1939. As the war progressed, it took many forms, including propaganda, spying, assassination, disruption, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Many groups were involved, including isolated partisan bands, the Jewish resistance, and the Home Army which confronted the Germans in the disastrous Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Going beyond the Second World War, Williamson's graphic account chronicles the clandestine civil war between the Communists and former members of the Home Army that continued until the Communist regime took power in 1947.
Story of a Secret State
Story of a Secret State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Story of a Secret State write by Jan Karski. This book was released on 2013-02-22. Story of a Secret State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression. Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.
