Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939 1945

Praise for Halik Kochanski’s The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War: “[A]n extraordinarily ambitious book . . . The Eagle Unbowed is one of the first books to make comprehensive use of the many new sources in English, putting a complicated story into a clear narrative.” —Anne Applebaum, New Republic “[U]ntil Halik Kochanski’s The Eagle Unbowed nobody had written a comprehensive English-language history of Poland at war . . . She uncovers details that will surprise even history geeks… Kochanski marshals an impressive and comprehensive array of English and Polish material.” —The Economist “[O]pinionated, fluid and forceful. It lays out in impressive detail how ordinary Poles lost the Second World War, kept losing and yet refused to be beaten.” —Oliver Bullough, New Statesman “Remarkable . . . supplies perhaps the last unwritten chapter in the history of the Second World War . . .history at its best.” —Adam Zamoyski, Standpoint WINNER OF THE 2023 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 “This is the most comprehensive and best account of resistance I have read. It addresses the story with scholarly objectivity and an absolute lack of sentimentality. So much romantic twaddle is still published . . . it is marvelous to read a study of such breadth and depth, which reaches balanced judgments.” —Max Hastings, The Sunday Times (UK) Resistance is the first book of its kind: a monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony in Europe into a single, sweeping narrative of defiance.