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Resistance : the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945 /

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative. It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kochanski, Halik (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements.
World War, 1939-1945 > Occupied territories.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance.
HISTORY / World.
Table of Contents:
  • The Shock of Defeat
  • Choices
  • The Clandestine Press
  • Escape from Occupied Europe
  • Resisters of the First Hour
  • Intelligence Gathering: 1939-41
  • The Origins of SOE and OSS
  • The Early Partisans
  • The Mobilization of the Communists
  • SOE Gets to Work
  • Three SOE Operations
  • The Sauckel Effect
  • The Holocaust: The Christian Response
  • The Holocaust: The Jewish Response
  • Who is the Enemy?
  • Divided Loyalties: France 1942-43
  • The Germans Hit Back
  • Resistance or Civil War? The Balkans
  • The Italian Surrender
  • Denmark Enters the Fray
  • Civil War or Resistance- The Balkans
  • Challenges and Dilemmas in the East
  • Intelligence: 1942-44
  • Preparing for D-Day
  • Summer 1944: France
  • Summer 1944: Other Fronts
  • Uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia
  • Autumn 1944: Western Europe
  • The German Retreat from the Balkans
  • Nearing the End: Winter 1944-45
  • To the Bitter End: Spring 1945
  • The Aftermath.