{ "item_title" : "The Invasion of Poland", "item_author" : [" James Whitmore "], "item_description" : "September 1939: the five weeks that started the Second World War in Europe.At dawn on September 1, 1939, the guns of the old German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish garrison at Westerplatte. Within hours, more than a million German soldiers, supported by tanks and aircraft, were crossing Poland's frontiers from the north, west, and south. On September 17, the Red Army invaded from the east. Poland was alone, caught between two of the most powerful armies in the world, and the help its allies had promised never came.The Invasion of Poland tells the full story of the campaign that began the war: the diplomatic crisis over Danzig and the Corridor, the secret pact between Hitler and Stalin, the battles on the frontier, the great Polish counteroffensive on the Bzura, the siege of Warsaw, and the last stand at Kock. It also separates fact from legend, showing why the famous stories of cavalry charging tanks and an air force destroyed on the ground are myths, and why the Polish army fought far harder than the world remembers.Inside this book, you will discover: The road to war, from Danzig and the Corridor to the Nazi-Soviet PactHitler's plan for Poland and the German way of warThe first shots at Westerplatte and the battles on the borderThe Battle of the Bzura, the largest Polish counteroffensive of the campaignThe siege and surrender of WarsawThe Soviet invasion from the east and the partition of PolandWhy the Western allies failed to actHow the Poles fought on in exile and undergroundClear, carefully researched, and written for general readers, this book explains not only what happened in Poland in 1939, but why it mattered for everything that followed.Part of James Whitmore's series on the Second World War.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/188/9798161886236_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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