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03177aam a2200385 i 4500 001 D6696E98471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190502t20192019enkabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1847924611 020 $a 9781847924612 020 $a 1847924603 020 $a 9781847924605 035 $a (OCoLC)1108710545 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d UWO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d NZAUC $d ZNS $d AAU $d SILO 043 $a e-pl--- 050 4 $a D765 M66 2019 100 1 $a Moorhouse, Roger $e author. 245 10 $a First to fight : $b the Polish War 1939 / $c Roger Moorhouse. 246 30 $a Polish War 1939 264 1 $a London : $b The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, $c 2019. 300 $a xxii, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: an unremarkable man -- 'Westerplatte fights on' -- The tyranny of geography -- A frightful futility -- The temerity to resist -- Poland is not yet lost -- Of 'liberators' and absent friends -- Into the arms of death -- Impenitent thieves -- To end on a battlefield -- Conclusion. 520 $a 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 of civilians, indiscriminate bombing and ethnic cleansing - it is little understood, and most of what we think we know about it is Nazi propaganda, such as the myth of Polish cavalry charging German tanks with their lances. In truth, Polish forces put up a spirited defence, in the expectation that they would be assisted by their British and French allies. That assistance never came. First to Fight is the first history of the Polish war for almost half a century. Drawing on letters, memoirs and diaries by generals and politicians, soldiers and civilians from all sides, Roger Moorhouse's dramatic account of the military events is entwined with a tragic human story of courage and suffering, and a dark tale of diplomatic betrayal. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Poland. 651 0 $a Poland $x History $y Occupation, 1939-1945. 611 27 $a Occupation of Poland (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353902 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 776 08 $i Ebook version : $z 9781473548220 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303021536.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D6696E98471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search