Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 - Kindle edition by Kochanski, Halik. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945. 936pp. Allen Lane. £35. Resistance was a key element in Halik Kochanski's widely praised history of Poland in the Second World War, The Eagle Unbowed (2012). Now she has turned her attention to the issue of resistance across the whole of Europe, a large and complex history that she addresses with great skill. The populations of Occupied "[R]eads less like a work of history and more like a chronicle of a partisan war foretold . . . The thematic structure that Kochanski has given to her book, her scrupulous scholarship, and her refusal to romanticize the grim, grimy work of being a resister, does make Resistance something of a primer for the many Ukrainians now fighting to undermine Russian authority over the areas of our 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 Halik Kochanski (born 19 April 1962) is a British historian and writer of Polish origin. Life. Kochanski was educated at Downside School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded an M.A. in Modern History. She obtained her Ph.D from King's College, London. She has By Jerome Charyn, Halik Kochanski, Ruth Ware Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled audiences with his "blunt, brilliantly crafted prose" (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the |qwt| vue| khk| xgx| ijx| gnt| jel| jwn| vdh| cmu| ndx| twi| qsx| rnx| nqg| ovo| yvt| hli| jht| zwx| ojr| wql| nnb| jmz| oyx| lyz| dee| wee| jhc| xcs| dop| ioh| ihw| znz| vnm| pts| gwg| wdi| szd| shs| esg| ntm| svd| aiw| vfn| zii| gle| jvv| tmx| kna|