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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

byHalik Kochanski

Halik Kochanski offers a sweeping history of resistance to Nazi rule across occupied Europe from 1939 to 1945. She compares underground movements with different politics, resources, goals, and relationships to civilian populations, governments in exile, and Allied intelligence. Sabotage, espionage, rescue, propaganda, assassination, and armed revolt carried terrible risks and sometimes provoked reprisals. The book avoids romantic unity, examining collaboration, antisemitism, rivalry, and postwar mythmaking alongside courage. Kochanski shows that resistance was shaped by local circumstances and that its military, moral, and political meanings remain complex.

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781324091653