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Author: Wiesław Rogalski
Publisher: Helion
Published: 2019-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781912390892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the methods and the legacy of the Polish resettlement programme following the Second World War & the establishment of the Polish Resettlement Corps.
Author: Zosia Biegus
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780956993496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evan McGilvray
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1473889758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlong with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939. They endured terrible treatment until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 suddenly put Stalin in the Allied camp, after which they were evacuated to Iran and formed into the Polish Second Corps under Anders command.Once equipped and trained, the corps was eventually committed to the Italian campaign, notably at Monte Cassino. The author assesses Anders performance as a military commander, finding him merely adequate, but his political role was more significant and caused friction in the Allied camp. From the start he often opposed Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister in exile and Commander in Chief of Polish armed forces in the West. Indeed, Anders was suspected of collusion in Sikorskis death in July 1943 and of later sending Polish death squads into Poland to eliminate opponents, charges that Evan McGilvray investigates. Furthermore, Anders voiced his deep mistrust of Stalin and urged a war against the Soviets after the defeat of Hitler.
Author: Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1107014263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.
Author: Michael Hope
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Moorhouse
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-07-14
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0465095410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London). For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.
Author: Marjoleine Zieck
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-09-06
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1781004161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book focuses on one of the so-called “durable solutions to the problem of refugees” that UNHCR has been charged to pursue: resettlement. Resettlement consists of the transfer of refugees from their country of asylum to another state in case of severe protection problems in the country of asylum. States are not obliged to offer resettlement places, and in practice that means that resettlement is run as a discretionary immigration scheme. This book attempts to integrate resettlement in international refugee law.
Author: Martin Williams
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1473894905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the first Axis capital.No-one in 1939 could have foreseen an entire Polish Corps engaged on the Italian Front. Most had been held prisoner in the USSR following Polands defeat and their release by Stalin was only achieved through the intense negotiations of British and Polish politicians generals, notably Sikorski and Anders,. The Polish Army was evacuated to Iran in 1942 and subsequently incorporated into the British Army as the Polish II Corps. Their ultimate postwar fate was shamefully ignored until too late.This book, which charts the extraordinary wartime story of the exiled Polish Army in the east, makes extensive use of undiscovered archive material. It reveals in depth the relations between the British and Polish General Staffs and the never ending hardships of the Polish soldiers.
Author: Laure Humbert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1108831354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original insight into how occupation officials and relief workers controlled and cared for Displaced Persons in the French zone.
Author: John J. McGrath
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780160869501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper clearly shows the immediate relevancy of historical study to current events. One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 is that too few troops were used. The argument often fails to satisfy anyone for there is no standard against which to judge. A figure of 20 troops per 1000 of the local population is often mentioned as the standard, but as McGrath shows, that figure was arrived at with some questionable assumptions. By analyzing seven military operations from the last 100 years, he arrives at an average number of military forces per 1000 of the population that have been employed in what would generally be considered successful military campaigns. He also points out a variety of important factors affecting those numbers-from geography to local forces employed to supplement soldiers on the battlefield, to the use of contractors-among others.
