Invasion of Poland
Briefing
Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 with 1.5 million troops in the first full demonstration of blitzkrieg warfare, and the Soviet Union invaded from the east two weeks later under the secret terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Britain and France declared war on 3 September, but Poland was partitioned within five weeks. The occupation that followed would kill nearly one fifth of the Polish population.
Books Covering This Event (13)
Popular History
A monumental history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, written by a journalist who.
A single-volume history of the entire war by the most influential military historian of the 20th century.
A single-volume history of the war organised around one question: why did the Axis lose?
A global history of the war focused on the experience of ordinary people — soldiers and civilians — caught in.
Memoir
Shirer's actual diary as CBS correspondent in Berlin, from the Anschluss to the fall of France — published while the war still hung in the balance.
A Polish-Jewish pianist's memoir of surviving the Warsaw Ghetto and hiding in the ruins of the city.
Churchill's six-volume memoir-history of the entire war, from the gathering storm to triumph and tragedy.
The architect of blitzkrieg recounts Poland, France, and the drive on Moscow — and his quarrels with Hitler.
Historical Fiction
An American naval officer and his family are swept up in the opening years of the war, from Hitler's invasion.
Academic
The standard one-volume academic history of the entire global war.
The making and breaking of the Nazi economy — the war explained through fuel, steel, grain, and labor.
The final volume of Evans's trilogy: Germany at war, from the invasion of Poland to the ruins of Berlin.
