After the country's occupation in 1939, the people of Poland were brutally oppressed by the SS and Geheime Staatspolizei. Yet ...

September 1939 marked the dawn of a terrifying new style of warfare — Blitzkrieg. With fast-moving Panzers, coordinated air ...

Six of these camps operated in Poland. Four of the six million Jews killed between 1933-1945 were murdered in death camps. Concentration camps were established in Nazi-occupied territory.

THE CHOICE: Poland, 1939–1945 Irene Eber, . . Schocken, $23 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-8052-4197-6 When the Nazis marched into Mielec, Poland, Eber was a 10-year-old dreaming of romance and happy endings.

Poland’s decision was even weightier than Moorhouse claims. His book focuses on the battles of September 1939 rather than German-Polish and German-Soviet relations.

Nation & World News ‘Send to death mercilessly and without compassion:’ Hitler invades Poland, 1939 Published: Sep. 01, 2019, 7:30 a.m.

Basic, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-465-09538-4 Military historian Moorhouse (Berlin at War) revisits the opening campaign of WWII—the 1939 invasion of Poland—in this dense and exhaustive account.