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  title info:
    title: Poland 1939
    sub title: the outbreak of World War II
  name:
    name part: Moorhouse, Roger
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In Soviet historical accounts, the war was prompted by the German invasion of June 1941. For the British and the French, the war was not taken seriously until the German forces penetrated French territory in May 1940. But for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939 when the Nazi army invaded Poland by land and by air, where they were soon joined by Stalin's army. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse introduces the September Campaign as the triggering event of World War II and challenges the prevailing historical understanding of the start the war. The Polish campaign of 1939 is the least written-about and least understood campaign of World War II. Although many of the doctrines and practices that would feature so strongly throughout the war, the targeting of civilians, race war, Blitzkrieg and aerial bombing would see their debut in Poland, the campaign is rarely given any real scrutiny. In his close examination of the often-overlooked September Campaign, Moorhouse explores the Anglo-French betrayal of Poland, when both Britain and France pledged to defend Poland but then did nothing of the sort (their inaction resulted in the slaughter of 16,000 Polish civilians). In Poland 1939, Moorhouse offers an insightful account of the September Campaign, and unravels the misconceptions and myths that have clouded the beginnings of World War II. This is the first English language history of the September Campaign. Moorhouse draws from memoirs of generals, diplomats, letters of soldiers and civilian diaries, as well as private and previously untapped documentary archives in Poland, to expose the true history of the September Campaign, the event that set the tone for the bloody conflict to come.
  note: Roger Moorhouse.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-pl---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Poland
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Poland
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War II
  classification: D765 .M63 2020
  classification: 940.54/2138
  identifier: 9780465095384
  identifier: 0465095380
  identifier: 9780465095414
  identifier: 2019044646
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190930
    record change date: 20201021160103.0
    record identifier: in00004203686