| Description |
xxii, 936 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs; 24 cm |
| 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 Getsto 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- -- 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. |
| Summary |
"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 unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to bring these disparate histories into a single narrative. Taking us from France in the west to parts of the Soviet Union in the east, Resistance reveals why and how small bands of individuals undertook actions that could lead not merely to their own deaths, but to the destruction of their entire communities. As Kochanski demonstrates, most who joined up were ordinary people who would not have been expected-even by themselves-to become heroes. Simultaneously panoramic and heartbreakingly intimate, Resistance is an incomparable history necessary for any home library"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
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| Added Title |
Underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN |
9781324091653 |
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1324091657 |
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