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Poland in the Crosshairs

By Sofia Nowak

Poland in the Crosshairs

By Sofia Nowak

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A frontier can be a line on a map or a sentence that seals a promise. Here, it was both. This book follows a nation rebuilt from partitions and asks why its plains became the opening theatre of catastrophe. It shows how Poland 1939 emerged from maps and myths, why the Danzig corridor mattered beyond tonnage, and how western guarantees sounded resolute while strategy lagged.You will learn how blitzkrieg in Poland married speed to radios, why the soviet invasion of Poland closed every escape, and how the occupiers tried to erase identity through schools, papers, and silence. Against them stood an audacious idea: the Polish underground state, complete with courts, curricula, and couriers. From there, the home army resistance sabotaged timetables, gathered intelligence, and kept a future alive, while the government-in-exile carried the case abroad. The narrative links operations to ordinary choices and joins maps to morals.For readers of serious history and policy, it offers a clear mental model for deterrence, alliance credibility, and civic endurance. By tracing the origins of the Warsaw Uprising and the geopolitics of Poland, it invites you to see how small nations survive large designs and why lessons from the first victim still speak to the present.
Product details
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2025-12-24
Publication Date:
2025-12-24
Publisher:
VIJ Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
934743664X
ISBN13:
9789347436642
Weight:
530 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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