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02499aam a2200337 i 4500 001 35E9D24864DA11EE9B61CFD73DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231007012445 008 190626t20192019enkaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1472834976 020 $a 9781472834973 020 $a 147283495X 020 $a 9781472834959 035 $a (OCoLC)1112373170 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d MNW $d IJ5 $d BKL $d UPM $d OCL $d UKMGB $d YDX $d GK8 $d UNITY $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a e-pl--- 100 1 $a Forczyk, Robert, $e author. 245 10 $a Case white : $b the invasion of Poland 1939 / $c Robert Forczyk. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Osprey Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 416 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Poland is not lost -- Poland prepares for the next round -- The threat emerges -- Countdown to war -- Opening moves -- Total war -- Apotheosis -- Occupation -- Officer Rank Table. 520 $a On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a secret protocol which divided all of Central Europe between the two totalitarian states. The stage was set for the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe, which came on September 1, 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland in an operation designated Fall Weiss (Case White). However, despite its significance, the actual military campaign for Poland has not been well covered in histories of the Second World War, an many significant misconceptions remain- notably that the Luftwaffe destroyed the Polish Air Force at the beginning of the war, that Polish military doctrine was outdated and foolish, and that the Polish armed forces were equipped with obsolete equipment and lacked the means to develop modern weapons. In Case White, author Robert Forczyk challenges these misconceptions and examines the campaign in the context of sources from both the German and Polish sides to expand and update our understanding of the opening campaign of the Second World War in Europe.-- book jacket 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Poland. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Poland. 650 7 $a Military campaigns. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710190 651 0 $a Poland $x History $y Occupation, 1939-1945. 941 $a 1 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20231007012533.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=35E9D24864DA11EE9B61CFD73DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search