Resistance by Halik Kochanski
The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
A panoramic history of Europe’s underground struggle against Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945, tracing how clandestine networks, intelligence cells, and partisan armies organized, fought, and endured amid scarcity and terror. It probes motivations, rivalries, and moral dilemmas; the roles of women and civilians; and the devastating reprisals that shaped choices, while unpacking the fraught relationships with Allied agencies and governments-in-exile. Cutting through myth, it assesses the varied impact of sabotage, espionage, and uprisings across countries from Scandinavia to the Balkans, concluding that resistance was limited militarily yet crucial politically and morally in shaping wartime societies and postwar memory.
- Published
- 2022
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Very Long
- Pages
- 960-1056
- Original Language
- English
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