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With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

By: Marek Swiecicki

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With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

By: Marek Swiecicki

The Battle of Arnhem remains a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published shortly after the battle itself. The 1st Polish Parachute Brigade played both an important and controversial role at Arnhem. The author, a Pole himself, was attached to the Brigade, saw action at Arnhem and managed to escape capture and return to Allied lines. He penned his account within weeks of returning, and as a result With the Red Devils at Arnhem has a tremendous freshness and appeal sometimes lacking in material written years afterwards. He offers a vivid insight into the experiences of the Poles at Arnhem, written in an exciting and lively manner. The Helion reprint has been expanded by airborne forces' expert and author Niall Cherry's additional notes providing further information and context. This book is a forgotten gem within the canon of Arnhem literature.

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Helion and Company

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1909384704

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9781909384705

Between Nazis and Soviets

Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947

By: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

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Between Nazis and Soviets

Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947

By: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Janów to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies.

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Lexington Books

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0739104845

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9780739104842

With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

By: Marek Swiecicki

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Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

By: Marek Swiecicki

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1909384704

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With the Red Devils at Arnhem

With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Between Nazis and Soviets

Between Nazis and Soviets

With the Red Devils at Arnhem

With the Red Devils at Arnhem

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