Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes and sent eastwards to the arctic wastes of Siberia. Prisoners of war, refugees, those regarded as 'social criminals' by Stalin's regime, and those rounded up by sheer chance were all sent 'to see the Great White Bear'. However, with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa just two years later, Russia and the Allied powers found themselves on the same side once more. Turning to those that it had previously deemed 'undesirable', Russia sought to raise a Polish army from the men, women and children that it had imprisoned within its labour camps. In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of this unit, the Polish II Corps or 'Anders Army', and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with previously unpublished photographs and first-hand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique visual and written record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781472816030
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216366530
Product Key Features
Author
Norman Davies
Publication Name
Trail of Hope: the Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Government, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
600 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
225mm
Item Width
197mm
Item Weight
2234g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Norman Davies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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