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(More customer reviews)Not a fan of military history, I read this book because I wanted to know more about the history of Poland in the first half of the 20th century, as my partner is a woman with partly Polish roots. In this regard, I found this book highly informative!!
This book is clearly written and in a style which makes it difficult to put this book down when the clock says I must do so!
Even though I am often disgusted by accounts of military history and bloody battles. those parts of this book are made so interesting and non-offensive that I did not want to skim over them to get to more pleasant prose.
This book is full of fascinating tidbits about life and conditions in Poland at the time that make it a treasure trove for anyone who wants to learn more about Poland in the first half of the 20th century!!
This is a book I definitely want to keep!!
Prof. Dr. Winfield Hutton
Seattle, WA.The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
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When Edward Śmigły-Rydz appeared on its September1939 cover, Time Magazine described him as "a scholar-technician," "graceful, versatile, serious," "with a professor's inquisitive" mind. This was the man who was leading Poland's resistance to Hitler's invasion. An impoverished orphan he had risen to his country's highest military rank, admonishing his people, "To the Germans we would lose our freedom; to the Russians we would lose our souls." In 1920 he had led a maneuver which defeated a westward surge by Russia's Red Army and had humiliated Joseph Stalin, but in 1939 Hitler and Stalin combined to overrun Poland. Interned, Śmigły-Rydz escaped, and despite a widespread manhunt, eluded his pursuers. In the end, he left behind a cryptic poem: "All around me are pensive crosses, black from smoke..." He also left behind a secret which undermined Germany's war effort and fostered Hitler's own defeat.Dr. Archibald Patterson holds degrees from Harvard and three other American universities (North Carolina, Southern Methodist, and Georgia.) He has been Assistant Director and operations manager, Government Accountability Office (GAO,) and Associate Professor, Troy State University - Europe, where he taught for six years, principally in Germany, but as far a field as Turkey. He was born in California and lives now in Tennessee.
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