As with much of history, it does seem to repeat itself, and with current affairs, the results are catastrophic and deadly.In this case Poland was fighting a losing battle but they never gave up. Poland's defensive war of 1939 led to a complex array of issues from the heightened efforts of diplomacy prior to the military campaigns which followed.
Armored trains and cavalry are often simultaneously used to represent the historic past with air raids and the targeting of civilians (including the current USA protests) showing force in the present.
The opening campaign to WWII was met with over 200k lives lost which has been glossed over in the history books using a minute set of paragraphs through enforcement of a more idealized propaganda that the effort was doomed to fail.
This may have fit the narrative for the Russians who claimed they conveniently moved in since Poland was on the verge of collapse, or the French and the British version who were set on fighting a long battle and didn't want to disrupt the plan to help Poland.
The author clearly showed powerful ties not only to that time but through chronological order, with graphic detail and picturesque photography that simply took your breath away.
The horror, the stories about being pulled out of homes & killed in front of your family for your nationality. The detail of the line -ups with a father and son in which the son cried for his father and was killed with him in this manner was so traumatizing to read that I cannot imagine the pain and suffering to see entire cities, towns, and the entire grid wiped off the map.
My word-I pray this violence ends- the unspeakable deaths -the horror-the countless lives that have suffered gravely in silence...
We need to learn from the past as it speaks volumes if only you stopped to listen...
Thank you Roger, the pub, Netgalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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