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Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939

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The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to use its new Panzers and dive-bombers.

The Polish military is often misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and outclassed by the Wehrmacht, when in fact it was well-equipped with modern weapons and armour. Indeed, the Polish possessed more tanks than the British and had cracked the German Enigma machine cipher. Though the combined assault from Germany and the Soviet Union defeated Poland, it could not crush the Polish fighting spirit and thousands of soldiers and airmen escaped to fight on other fronts. The result of Case White was a brutal occupation, as Polish Slavs found themselves marginalized and later eliminated, paving the way for Hitler's vision of Lebensraum (living space) and his later betrayal and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Using a wide array of sources, Robert Forczyk challenges the myths of Case White to tell the full story of the invasion that sparked history's greatest conflict.

Author: Forczyk Robert
Publisher: OSPREY
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781472834959
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2019

Introduction

Chapter 1 Poland's Struggle to secure its New Borders

Chapter 2 Poland's Military Rearmament

Chapter 3 German Rearmament and Collaboration with the USSR

Chapter 4 The Crisis of August 1939

Chapter 5 The Opening Days of the German Invasion

Chapter 6 Polish Counterattack on the Bzura

Chapter 7 The Siege of Warsaw

Chapter 8 The Soviet Invasion

Chapter 9 Occupation

Chapter 10 The Reckoning

Glossary

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armour officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in Washington,DC.

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