- 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.
- Variant Title
- Underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kochanski, Halik, author.
- Published
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2022
©2022
- Locale
- Europe
Germany
- Edition
- First American edition
- Contents
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Part One: Why resist?. Shock of Defeat ; Choices ; Clandestine Press ; Escape from Occupied Europe ; Resisters of the First Hour ; Intelligence Gathering: 1939-41 ; Origins of SOE and OSS
Part Two: Growing the resistance. Early Partisans ; Mobilization of the Communists ; SOE Gets to Work ; Three SOE Operations ; Sauckel Effect ; Holocaust: The Christian Response ; Holocaust: The Jewish Response ; Who is the Enemy? ; Divided Loyalties: France 1942-43 ; Germans Hit Back ; Resistance or Civil War? The Balkans
Part Three. Resistance in Action. Italian Surrender ; Denmark Enters the Fray ; Civil War or Resistance - The Balkans ; Challenges and Dilemmas in the East ; Intelligence: 1942-44 ; Preparing for D-Day ; Summer 1944: France ; Summer 1944: Other Fronts ; Uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia ; Autumn 1944: Western Europe ; German Retreat from the Balkans ; Nearing the End: Winter 1944-45 ; To the Bitter End: Spring 1945 ; Aftermath.
- Notes
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"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, under the title Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-1945" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 831-916) and index.
Part One: Why resist?. Shock of Defeat ; Choices ; Clandestine Press ; Escape from Occupied Europe ; Resisters of the First Hour ; Intelligence Gathering: 1939-41 ; Origins of SOE and OSS -- Part Two: Growing the resistance. Early Partisans ; Mobilization of the Communists ; SOE Gets to Work ; Three SOE Operations ; Sauckel Effect ; Holocaust: The Christian Response ; Holocaust: The Jewish Response ; Who is the Enemy? ; Divided Loyalties: France 1942-43 ; Germans Hit Back ; Resistance or Civil War? The Balkans -- Part Three. Resistance in Action. Italian Surrender ; Denmark Enters the Fray ; Civil War or Resistance - The Balkans ; Challenges and Dilemmas in the East ; Intelligence: 1942-44 ; Preparing for D-Day ; Summer 1944: France ; Summer 1944: Other Fronts ; Uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia ; Autumn 1944: Western Europe ; German Retreat from the Balkans ; Nearing the End: Winter 1944-45 ; To the Bitter End: Spring 1945 ; Aftermath.
