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Elzbieta Zawacka: Polish soldier and courier during World War Two

Author : Bernard O'Connor

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 17,63 MB

Release : 2014-06-09

Category : History

ISBN : 129191224X

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When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Elzbieta Zawacka joined the Women's Battalion of the Home Army and worked as an instructor and courier, taking money, messages and reports to members of the Polish resistance in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. In November 1942 she was given a mission to take valuable intelligence via France and Spain to Britain. Succeeding in that task, she was parachuted back into Poland to help the resistance for the rest of the war. This book provides a detailed account of her wartime experiences.



Bletchley Park and the Pigeon Spies

Author : Bernard O'Connor

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 602 pages

File Size : 34,13 MB

Release : 2018-02-05

Category : History

ISBN : 0244666407

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Over 15,000 pigeons were dropped into occupied Europe during WW2. Some were used by secret agents to send messages back to headquarters. Others were dropped by parachute into France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark in the hope that people would complete the attached questionnaire and provided military, political, economic or other intelligence of value for the Allies. Photographic negatives could be sent. Bletchley Park had its own loft for its pigeon spies. This book investigates the work of MI14, known as the Colomba Service, and for the first time sheds light on conditions in Occupied Europe described by extremely brave men and women who risked execution if found in possession of a pigeon. MI14 staff, decoded or translated messages and forwarded copies to SOE, SIS, MI19, RAF, RN, Ministry of Economic Warfare, BBC, Churchill, de Gaulle and President Benes of Czechoslovakia.



Operation EBENSBURG: SOE’s Austrian ‘Bonzos’ and the rescue of looted European art

Author : Bernard O'Connor

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 33,20 MB

Release : 2018-04-16

Category : History

ISBN : 0244380899

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Some captured German and Austrian personnel were brought to Britain as prisoners of war. Those who were identified as anti-Nazi were 'turned' and, codenamed 'Bonzos', were trained in paramilitary and clandestine warfare to be sent back into occupied Europe on top secret missions. The British Special Operations Executive arranged the infiltration of four Austrians, Albrecht Gaiswinkler, Joseph Grafl, Karl Standhartinger and Karl Lzicar, into the Salzkammergut area of northwestern Austria. This book tells the story of Operation EBENSBURG, their mission to kidnap or assassinate Joseph Goebbels, the Reich's Minister of Propaganda, to organise resistance groups before the arrival of American forces and to protect the looted works of art hidden in the Altaussee salt mine.



Survivors

Author : Jadwiga Biskupska

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 22,1 MB

Release : 2022-02-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1009027557

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Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia's resistance to Nazi occupation.



Women Warriors in History

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 25,69 MB

Release : 2023-12-20

Category : History

ISBN : 1476650322

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History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, from Bronze Age archers and Viking raiders, to helicopter pilots and commanders of aircraft carriers. Entries summarize heroes such as the Old Testament judge Deborah, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Aisha, Mary Spencer-Churchill, Calamity Jane, Cleopatra VII, Molly Pitcher, Aung San Suu Kyi and-- surprisingly-- Julia Child. Included are the famous stands the unheralded scrappers and risk-takers took up in fierce crises.



If the Walls Could Speak

Author : Anna Müller

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 27,47 MB

Release : 2018

Category : History

ISBN : 0190499869

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If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes.



For Your Freedom and Ours

Author : Margaret Brodniewicz-Stawicki

Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 46,59 MB

Release : 1999

Category : History

ISBN :

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One of the darkest days in modern history was September 1, 1939, when the German war machine rolled into Poland. After a five-week struggle against a ruthless enemy far superior in equipment and personnel, Poland succumbed. But in their hearts, the Poles refused to admit defeat. Although the regular fighting on Polish soil came to an end, it continued underground, and carried into foreign lands. Polish officers and men, risking their lives, made their way to France to join the new Polish Army being organized there, then to Great Britain and the Middle East. Time and again, the Polish Armed Forces were a major influence on the course of the Second World War. Beset by invaders throughout history, they had become a tough and resolute people, determined to restore their independence and their country's freedom. This book is a tribute to those who fought the battle for a free Poland.



The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 473 pages

File Size : 40,60 MB

Release : 2015-06-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1107014263

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Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.



Historical Abstracts

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Page : 744 pages

File Size : 34,31 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Civilization, Modern

ISBN :

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Home Run

Author : John Nichol

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 629 pages

File Size : 17,90 MB

Release : 2007-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0141901233

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Throughout the Second World War, thousands found themselves cut off behind the lines in Nazi-occupied Europe — soldiers were left stranded on beaches after the chaotic evacuation of Dunkirk, airmen flying operations against the Germans were blasted out of the sky by flak and fighters. They were alone and on the run in enemy territory with just one goal — to get back to Britain and to safety. Some made solitary treks through hundreds of miles of enemy territory, others attempted precarious sea crossings in stolen boats. Many placed their lives in the hands of brave civilians who risked the wrath of a brutal regime if they dared to offer assistance. Life for the evaders hung in the balance and if they were to survive they had to rely on guile and sheer luck.John Nichol and Tony Rennell tell the dramatic story of the heroes who made it home . . . and those who did not.