Halik Kochanski - The Eagle Unbowed

The fate of the inhabitants of Poland was one of the most terrible of the Second World War. Their nation carved up between Nazi and Soviet forces in 1939, millions of Poles were killed or displaced. Jews were to be murdered, Christians reduced to a semi-literate slave class. Yet until now, Poland’s story has not been told as a whole.

This powerful and original book is perhaps the most important ‘missing’ work on the conflict, describing fully the fate of those trapped within occupied Poland, those who were able to escape, and those who fought back. The Eagle Unbowed is a compelling testimony to endurance under impossible conditions.