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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.
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unpublished photographs and first-hand accounts from the men and women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.
Contents:
Introduction
I. Origins of the Polish Army in the USSR
II. Russia
III. Central Asia
IV. Growth and Consolidation of the Anders Army
V. Evacuation from the USSR
VI. Iran, 1942-43
VII. The Carpathian Brigade
VIII. Iraq, 1943
IX. Who were the Andersowcy?
X. Civilian Diaspora: Africa
India
Teheran Children
Mexico
NZ
XI. Palestine
XII. ‘Anders Aliyah'
XIII. General Sikorski's Last Mission, June-July 1943
XIV. Egypt
XV. The Italian Campaign: to Monte Cassino (May 1944)
XVI. Wojtek the Bear
XVII. Battle of Ancona
XVIII. War's End, 1945
XIX. Britain: End of the Trail
XX. Retrospect: Historiography, Films, Museum, Memoirs, Internet
About The Author:
Norman Davies FBA, FRHistS is a British-Polish historian noted for his
publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He
is widely regarded as one of the preeminent historians of Central and
Eastern European history. He is the UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian
University, Professor Emeritus at the University College London, a
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and an Honorary Fellow at
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Norman Davies About Trail Of Hope
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Features
- Hardcover 600 pages
- Black and White And Color photos
- 2015
- Size 8" x 10.25" - 20.5cm x 26cm
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