Politics and the armed forces: the Poles in the Second World War
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Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
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Chapter I. Polish Army in World War II. Introduction to the Subject......9
1. The origin of the war.................................................9
2. The events of September Campaign......................................11
3. Polish Army in France............................................... 16
4. Polish Armed Forces in the West.......................................18
5. Polish Armed Forces in the USSR and Polish Army 1944-1945...........20
6. Polish Underground State Army.........................................22
Bibliography to Chapter 1................................................25
Chapter II. The 1939 September Campaign. Attempt of recapitulation.......27
1. The 1939 September Campaign or Defensive War?.........................27
2. Is it worth to write about the September Campaign any more?...........28
3. What is new about the September Campaign in this chapter?.............29
4. Was Poland prepared for war?..........................................30
5. Process of mobilization...............................................31
6. Combat episodes and battles. A sketch for a portrait of the 1939
September Campaign.......................................................33
7. Attempt of estimation.................................................41
Bibliography to Chapter II...............................................51
Chapter III. Living behind the barbed wires. Polish soldiers interned
and captured.............................................................52
1. Circumstances of taken into captivity and interning Polish soldiers
in the September Campaign................................................52
2. Polish POWs from the September Campaign..............................56
3. Polish POWs from the September Campaign in the Soviet Union..........60
4. Polish seamen interned in Sweden......................................63
5. Polish soldiers interned in Hungary...................................64
6. Polish soldiers interned in Romania...................................64
7. Poles interned in Lithuania...........................................66
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8. Poles interned in Latvia................................................67
9. Conclusions.............................................................69
Bibliography to Chapter III................................................71
Chapter IV. In the land of France. Political and military aspects of forming
the Polish Army in France............................................73
1. Political dilemmas after the September Campaign........................73
2. Legal grounds of forming the Polish Army in France.....................74
3. Concepts and organizational plans.......................................77
4. Forming the Polish Army in France.......................................78
5. Training of commanders and troops.......................................81
6. Polish divisions in the 1940 French Campaign...........................86
7. Conclusions.............................................................89
Bibliography to Chapter IV.................................................93
Chapter V. In the desert sands. The Polish Independent Brigade Group
in Africa............................................................95
1. Direction: the Near East................................................95
2. Under the British command...............................................96
3. In the Pharaohs’land....................................................97
4. The Tobruk relief......................................................101
5. The desert fights......................................................105
6. Conclusions............................................................Ill
Bibliography to Chapter V.................................................114
Chapter VI. The Albion relief. The Polish Army in the British Isles.......116
1. Difficult beginnings...................................................116
2. Training of military forces............................................121
3. The anti-airborne defence..............................................124
4. The Polish Navy - between the sky and sea bottom, suspended amidst
the waves.................................................................126
5. The SkalskVs Circus and others - Polish Air Forces in Great Britain....130
6. Conclusions............................................................135
Bibliography to Chapter VI................................................136
Chapter VII. In the arms of the Big Brother. Polish Military Forces
in the Soviet Union - 1941-1942.......................................... 138
1. High expectations......................................................138
2. In the very heart of Asia..............................................145
3. Evacuation.............................................................146
4. Reaching combat readiness..............................................149
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5. Conclusions.............................................................155
Bibliography to Chapter VII................................................157
Chapter VIII. By the rivers of Babylon. The Polish Army in the Middle East.159
1. Organizational concepts of the army...................................159
2. Change of plans. Forming of the 2nd Polish Corps......................163
3. Preparing of command cadres and experts...............................166
4. Training of troops....................................................169
5. Conclusions...........................................................172
Bibliography to Chapter VIII.............................................175
Chapter IX. Sixty Kilometers from Katyn. The Battle of Lenino of Polish
1st Tadeusz Kosciuszko Infantry Division.................................177
1. Soviet plans to create Polish National Army in the USSR...............178
2. Politics is politics and Berling is the commander.....................182
3. The Patron of the 1st division - Tadeusz Kosciuszko...................184
4. To the front..........................................................186
5. Preparation to battle.................................................188
6. Baptism of fire.......................................................189
7. War of commanders.....................................................192
8. Conclusions...........................................................195
Bibliography to Chapter IX...............................................198
Chapter X. On the way to the eternal city. The legend and truth
on Monte Cassino.........................................................200
1. A new deal - the Italian front........................................200
2. The battle preparations...............................................204
3. Monte Cassino battle..................................................207
4. Conclusion............................................................209
Bibliography to Chapter X................................................215
Chapter XI. Hot Summer of 1944: Was “Storm” Necessary?.....................217
1. Birth of the idea.....................................................217
2. The course of “Storm” in the eastern area of Poland.....................219
3. “Storm” between the Bug and the Vistula...............................221
4. New occupation?.......................................................224
5. Following “Storm”: Polish Army in 1944................................225
6. Between patriotism and responsibility: Are they guilty of initiating
the Warsaw uprising?.....................................................236
7. Conclusions...........................................................243
Bibliography to Chapter XI...............................................247
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Chapter XII. The liberators of Europe. The battles of Polish Armed
Forces in the final period of war.....................................249
1. In Western Europe...................................................249
2. Pomeranian Battles.................................................258
3. The Capturing of Bologne...........................................267
4. Conclusions........................................................275
Bibliography to Chapter XII............................................279
Chapter XIII. Best of the best. Soldiers and senior commanders
of the Polish Army during WWII.........................................281
1. Were they the best?.................................................281
2. The sketch for a portrait of the senior commanding staff..........284
3. Conclusions........................................................293
Bibliography to Chapter XIII...........................................296
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