Trail of hope : the Anders Army, an odyssey across three continents
Davies, Norman, 1939-2015
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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. Renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of this unit.
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Trail of hope : the Anders Army, an odyssey across three continents / Norman Davies.
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Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2015.
Collation:
600 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781472816030 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'412438940.5412438
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English
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BRN:
2250191
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