On the partition of Poland in WWII. A Book?

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On the partition of Poland in WWII. A Book?

1guido47
Editado: Abr 19, 2018, 5:24 am

Dear Group,

Do you you have any topics on the partition of Poland in 1939.

Are there any books on that topic you can recommend?

There are many details I would like to know.

Guido.

PS. My Uncle was a Polish Cavalry officer who then became a RAF Spitfire flyer in North Africa. Tabrook.
A very interesting story in it's own right.
He won a DFC. And was shot down. But lived. But...

2spaceowl
Feb 14, 2022, 10:03 pm

In English, I was very impressed with Halik Kochanski's The Eagle Unbowed, which really opened my eyes to the horrors of Nazi repression 1n wartime Poland. Goes into a lot of interesting detail on the Powstanie outside of Warsaw which I hadn't seen anywhere else in English.

3Rood
Feb 15, 2022, 4:22 pm

>2 spaceowl: It must be remembered that Stalin and Nazi Hitler agreed to partition Poland in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, which led directly to WWII ... and that the Russians were hardly much better in their treatment of the Poles ... Recall the Russian massacre of 22,000 Poles in the Katyn Forest See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Rather than returning their ill-got gains after WWII, Russia kept the eastern part of Poland

4spaceowl
Editado: Feb 23, 2022, 1:24 pm

>3 Rood: I'm fully aware, thanks, Rood. I was taught Polish by a man from Tarnopol, then on the border with the USSR, now 200km inside Ukraine. From him, I had the inside story of the Soviet repression (he was deported to Siberia before joining the Anders Army, and lost a schoolfriend at Katyn Forest). Sorry if I didn't express a deep enough condemnation of the Soviets, they were unpleasant too.
While on the matter of Poland in WW2, I can certainly recommend First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse, a little outside of the scope of guido047's original question but still an excellent account of Poland's fight in 1939, going some way to dispel the myth that the Poles were in some way a pushover in that campaign.