When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Timothy Snyder POLAND 1939 The Outbreak of World War II By Roger Moorhouse A wise (and divorced) ...

Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

Military historian Moorhouse (Berlin at War) revisits the opening campaign of WWII—the 1939 invasion of Poland—in this dense and exhaustive account. Contending that the Poles have long been rendered ...

Numbers correspond to timeline events and locations. Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other ...

It is common historical knowledge that the war broke out with an attack by Hitler's Third Reich against Poland on September 1, 1939. But it seems fewer people are aware that a similar invasion was ...

My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from ...

In 1921 the Second Polish Republic expands to the borders it will have until it is overrun by the Germans and Soviets in ...